 The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 971860Full view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...I sat down, and began to write, without 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 than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it—add, that I was very glad to think of any thing, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, • In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—"... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...morning I sat down and began to write, without 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 than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1845 - 492 pages
...Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engross^d with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, tii half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add,...think of anything rather than politics. In short, Í was so impressed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...evening I sat down and began to write, without 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 than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...relate. The work grew on my htinds, and 1 grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad tothink of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed ill less than two monlhs, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add,...evening I wrote from the time 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,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...evening I sat down and began to write, without 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...very glad to think of anything rather than politics. lu short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1853 - 478 pages
...relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed...that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea (about six o'clock) till half an hour past one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so... | |
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