 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, (a very natural dream fur ahead filled like mine with Gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and hegau to write, without knowing in tiie... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...recover was that I 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 a great staircase I saw a gigantic head in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...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...knowing in the least what I intended to -say or relate. Tlie work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of anything rather... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - Adventure stories, English - 1874 - 546 pages
...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...least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew in my hands, and I grew fond of it. In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 408 pages
...on the uppermost banister of a great staircase he saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening he sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what he intended to say or relate. The work grew on his hands, and he grew fond of it. " In short," says... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...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 ag gantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Powell James - Fiction - 1894 - 264 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...Gothic story), and that, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without...intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands. . . In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one... | |
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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... 
