 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
 | Susan Wolstenholme - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...this romance! I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all 1 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 banister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Because this particular bored aristocrat was Horace Walpole, and because his literary ambitions were... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 338 pages
...Matthew G. Lewis. Cambridge: Mass., 1961, 39, 213. 15. The Castle ofOtranto, 3-6. with Gothic siory) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase...hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began 10 write, without knowing in the least what I wanted to say or relate.16 And Mary Shelley, in her 1831... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 338 pages
...waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine 14. MS Townshend, ix [Matthew Lewis. "The Monk"]. MS housed at the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Wisbech,... | |
 | Andrä Breton - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 450 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 castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled as mine was, with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic... | |
 | Caroline Gonda - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...Walpole later claimed had inspired his Gothic tale: 'I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour' (p. ix). Conrad, the last of the usurper's line, destroyed by Otranto's real owner, Alfonso (who as... | |
 | Edward Larrissy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 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...for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and on the upper banister of the great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat... | |
 | Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 788 pages
...irrational: '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...a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour' (letter to William Cole, 9 March 1 765). Many of the issues common to subsequent discourse about the... | |
 | Christopher Christie - Architecture - 2000 - 374 pages
...novel he wrote, The Castle ofOtranto (1765), and reminiscent of a dream he described having in 1764: 'I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very...dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) ... I saw a gigantic hand in armour'. 1*' Walpole had 'advanced' taste: most owners of houses still... | |
 | Caroline Blinder - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...you what was the origin of this romance? I 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 filled . . . with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic... | |
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