 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
 | Helene Moglen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 238 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...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.7 As he recognized, the... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - Fiction - 2002 - 212 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...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 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...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... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 276 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...very glad to think of anything rather than politics" (Correspondence, 1:88; to William Cole, March 9, 1765). Again, the story and the not-politics find... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 836 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,...one 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1876 - 880 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,...glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In sliort, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 608 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1845 - 236 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... | |
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