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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... "
The borough, continued. Occasional pieces. The world of dreams. Tales - Page 10
by George Crabbe - 1834
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...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...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...(a very 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...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 530 pages
...(a very natural dream for a head filled like jninc with gothic story); and that on the upperi most banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

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....knowing in the least what I intended to say or .relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

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...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

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...nothing but parentheses, and the common in.i and outs i The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

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....knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...
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