| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 páginas
...the year 176'4 our author produced the most popular of his original works, the " Castle of Otranto," a tale which has given origin to a thousand imitations....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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 páginas
...the year 1764 our author produced the most popular of his original works, the " Castle of Otranto," a tale which has given origin to a thousand imitations....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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 530 páginas
...written in eight evenings; but the following extract from a letter, by Mr. Walpole, dated March 9, 17^5, presents us with a more probable period for its composition...recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like jninc with gothic story); and that on the upperi... | |
| 1817 - 504 páginas
...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 páginas
...romance is 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...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 - 808 páginas
...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?...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 in the uppermost... | |
| 1819 - 782 páginas
...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...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 in the uppermost... | |
| 1819 - 792 páginas
...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...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 in the uppermost... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 páginas
...composition, in 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...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 páginas
...which he 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...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... | |
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