 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 496 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands. ... half an hour after one in the morning. — WALPOLE, HORACE, 1765, To Rev. Wttliam Cole, March 9 ; Letters,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...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...than two months, that one evening I wrote from the tune I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1912 - 482 pages
...The work grew on my hands and I grew fond »f it, — add, that I wag very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed...months, that 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 hand and fingers... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1914 - 428 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1915 - 478 pages
...in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it ... in short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I...the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning.' " Cambridge. 3 In the original edition it professed to be a... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 pages
...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...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... | |
| |
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... 
