 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...Walpole, dated March 9, 1765, presents us with a more probable period for its composition : " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance?...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story) ; and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...Walpole, dated March 9, 1765, presents us with a more probable period for its composition : " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance?...recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient cas^ tie (a very natural dream for a head filled like' mine with gothic story) ; and that on the upper-.... | |
 | 1817 - 504 pages
...as the origin of thit romance. " I naked one mtrning in the beginning of last June from a ilroani, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient cistl« (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with pothic etory), am! lhal on the uppermost... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 pages
...given by the author himself in a letter to Mr Cole, dated Strawberry-. Hill, March 9, 1769. " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance...waked one morning in the beginning of last June from it dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, (a very... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...pannel, did not you recollect the portrait of Lord Falkland all in white in my gallery? Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...pannel, did not you recollect the portrait of Lord Falkland all in white in my gallery? Shall I even confess to you what was the origin' of this romance?...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I... | |
 | 1819 - 782 pages
...pannel, did not you recollect the portrait of Lord Falkland all in white in my gallery? Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...which he contradicts the ordinary assertion, that it was completed in eight days. " 9th Mara " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance...morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of VOL. v. e which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, (a very natural... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...contradicts the ordinary assertion, that it was completed in eight days. " 9th March, 1763. " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance...morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of VOL. v. e which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, (a very natural... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...contradicts the ordinary assertion, that it was completed in eight days. " 9lh March, 1763. "Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this romance?...an ancient castle, (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw... | |
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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 bannister of... 
