 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 banister...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 971860Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1876 - 618 pages
...romance !. 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...mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...this romance ! I waked one morning, in the beginmng of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient...mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 440 pages
...this romance ! 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...mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 444 pages
...this romance ! 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...mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...author explains its origin by recounting how he " waked one morning 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 like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...was written in less than two months, and had been suggested by a dream, " of which all that I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 pages
...this romance ? 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...bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to... | |
 | English periodicals - 1890 - 540 pages
...dream. " I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister...great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." This gigantic hand in armour was, as all readers will remember, the root of the story. Gray reported... | |
 | American periodicals - 1890 - 960 pages
...Horace Walpole and his friend, the poet Gray. The book was suggested, Walpole tells us, by a dream. " I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1890 - 524 pages
...Horace Walpole and his friend, the poet Gray. The book was suggested, Walpole tells us, by a dream. " I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
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