 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which 1 completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it ; so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning ; when my hands and fingers... | |
 | William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I comDieted in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea (about six o'clock) till half an hour past one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. ID short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and lingers... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, «hat I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pages
...Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so impressed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months,...that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 pages
...any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so impressed with my tale, which I completed In leu than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so... | |
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I sat down and began to write, without knowing, in the least, what I intended to say, or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. 
