 | Clara Reeve - English fiction - 1883 - 448 pages
...authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr. Gray writes to Mr. Walpole, on 3Oth December 1764: "I have received The Castle of Otranto, and return...translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas." The friends of the author, as appears from the letter already quoted,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pages
...no more than the man in the moon. Adieu. LXXIII. — TO HORACE WALPOLE. Sunday, December 30, 1764. I HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,1 makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o! nights. We take it... | |
 | 1888 - 82 pages
...Gray, the author of Gray's Elegy, wrote to him from Cambridge that Castle Otranto made " some of them cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." 3. My Ten Years' Imprisonment. By Silvio Pellico. Silvio Pellioo's story is a classic in... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1890 - 414 pages
...received the Castle of Otranlo,' he says, ' and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here [at Cambridge], makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights.' In the second edition, which followed in April, 1765, Walpole dropped the mask, disclosing... | |
 | American periodicals - 1890 - 960 pages
...will remember, the root of the story. Gray reported that at Cambridge the book mnde " some of them cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." So here in full eighteenth century we already find the temper and furniture of later romance.... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1890 - 524 pages
...will remember, the root of the story. Gray reported that at Cambridge the book made " some of them cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." So here in full eighteenth century we already find the temper and furniture of later romance.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pages
...immediately after publication, was in the secret. ' I have received the Castle of Otranto,' he says, ' and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here [at Cambridge], makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights.' In... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...better of his critical faculty. He wrote to Walpole, December 30, 1764, " It engages our attention here, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." Walpole had shown his manuscript to Gray, and the latter had recommended publication. To-day... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 236 pages
...better of his critical faculty. He wrote to Walpole, December 30, 1764, "It engages our attention here, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." Walpole had shown his manuscript to Gray, and the latter had recommended publication. To-day... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...better of his critical faculty. He wrote to Walpole, December 30, 1764, " It engages our attention here, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." Walpole had shown his manuscript to Gray, and the latter had recommended publication. To-day... | |
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We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas. 
