 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention heref, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...natural enough in count Algarotti. you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe i't to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nisthts. We take it fora translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not fur... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us Ins knees, and had taken hold of the breast of his coa o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1904 - 738 pages
...exciting horror with the next. We have gone far since Walpole's Castle of Otranto made its readers " cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." To us the gloomy Gothic vaults and dungeons, the monstrous helmet and its sable plumes seem merely... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here (ie at Cambridge), makes some of us cry a little; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation : and should believe it to be a true story, * J ' if it were... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights.- We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ic at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ic at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1836 - 336 pages
...Castle of Otranto,* and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,f makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas.... | |
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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. 
