 | Einar Nylén - English literature - 1924 - 322 pages
...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...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or reläte.»1) Utom själva impulsen har hans gotiska hem lämnat honom tanken på många detaljer i... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literature - 1925 - 436 pages
...armour resting on the uppermost banister. The vision haunted him during the day, and in the evening he sat down and began to write, " without knowing in the least what " he " intended to say or relate." He was bored with politics, as we have often been, and he was very... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...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 banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...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 banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | Gary Hoppenstand - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 146 pages
...of Otranto (1764), Walpole states: "I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | Ronald R. Thomas - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 324 pages
...which all I could recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate."1 Here, at the beginning point of English gothic fiction, Horace Walpole joined the experience... | |
 | Wayne Andrews - Art - 1990 - 198 pages
...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...bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Because this particular bored aristocrat was Horace Walpole, and because his literary ambitions were... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 338 pages
...Matthew G. Lewis. Cambridge: Mass., 1961, 39, 213. 15. The Castle ofOtranto, 3-6. with Gothic siory) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase...hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began 10 write, without knowing in the least what I wanted to say or relate.16 And Mary Shelley, in her 1831... | |
 | Caroline Gonda - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...Walpole later claimed had inspired his Gothic tale: 'I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour' (p. ix). Conrad, the last of the usurper's line, destroyed by Otranto's real owner, Alfonso (who as... | |
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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 banister of... 
