 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. It would be easier to underestimate... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. It would be easier to underestimate... | |
 | Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...5 I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." 8 We observe the author's satisfaction... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 432 pages
...had drunk my tea about six o'clock till half-an-hour after one in the morning, when my hand and my fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. One is irresistibly reminded of... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - Fiction - 1966 - 356 pages
...than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, ahout six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish my sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. Strawberry Hill is... | |
 | Wayne Andrews - Art - 1990 - 198 pages
...with my tale . . . that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, til half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." This letter was so welcome to... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...He wrote quickly ('one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea', he recalled, '. . . till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence . . .'), and by 6 August had finished the novel.9 It would be published at the Strawberry Hill Press... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - Fiction - 2002 - 212 pages
...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.28 The dream, pointedly, is 'a... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 pages
...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. [The first readers of the novel... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 608 pages
...than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness;... | |
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I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,... 
