 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. ... In short, I was . . . engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months." It was... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. ... In short, I was . . . engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months." It was... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase. I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. ... In short, I was . . . engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months." It was... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 334 pages
...Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without...my hands, and I grew fond of it — add, that I was glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...Gothic story), and that, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without...intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands. . . In short, L was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...with Gothic story), and that on (he uppermost Itanister of a errat staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least »hat I intended to sav иг relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fonà of it. Add, that I... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1899 - 232 pages
...Exchequer, Comptroller of the Pipe, and Clerk of the Estreats in the Exchequer, he received nearly tv without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." So began the tale which professed to be translated by " William Marshal, gentleman, from the Italian... | |
 | Hans Reinhard Möbius - English fiction - 1902 - 152 pages
...with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to...very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening,... | |
 | 1906 - 1102 pages
...Gothic story), and that, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without...intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands. ..." Thus his play castle, which occupied his mind even in his dreams, was the origin of a play romance... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without...very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening... | |
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I waked, one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister... 
