 I completed in less than two 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 were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...  The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford - Page 328by Horace Walpole - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning; when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the developement of character displayed in this little romance have much merit;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning; when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the dcvelopemcnt of character displayed in this little romance have much merit... | |
 | 1817 - 504 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." (3f his compilations, the most useful is, " The Anecdotes bf Painting and Engraving." This was avowedly... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...fidelity the manners of ancient days, I am content." To the work, however, which was written with so much interest, Mr Walpole did not affix his name, but... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to flnish the sentence, but left off Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestiicss ; but if I have amused you, by retracing with any fidelity the manners of ancient days,... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left oft' Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ;... | |
 | 1819 - 782 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and ringers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left off .Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ;... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, eeks faster It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...o'clock, till hah0 an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that T could not. hold the pen to finish the sentence, but...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
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