 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...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....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 in less... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...natural dream for a head filled like' mine with gothic story) ; and that on the upper-. most banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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 in less... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...kiair-casc, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening 1 sat down, and began to write, without knotting in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my haivls, and I grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad to think of any thing rather than polltics.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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 in less... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...natural dream for a head filled' like mine with Gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....write, without knowing in the least what I intended td say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I ' was very glad to... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' The work... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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 in less... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister ression, till John de la Casse's Devils led me the...to the lives of the greatest ministers of state ; any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
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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 bannister of... 
