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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ... - Page lxvi
by Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 659 pages
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...the time I had drank my tea, 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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In _short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 pages
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...I was very glad to think of any thing rather than polities. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 pages
...stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or .relate. The work...that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Colin Dunlop - 1816 - 538 pages
...armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended td say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew...very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. la short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two/ months, that one evening...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 782 pages
...designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." VoLi. p. 10ft grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. — Add,...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 ringers...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 792 pages
...illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." Vol. ip 100. grew on my bands, and I grew fond of it. — Add, that I was very glad...months*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, ¿bout six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 808 pages
...designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." Vol. ip 100. grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. — Add,...engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two mouths*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...the time I had drank my tea, 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...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 6

1825 - 610 pages
...staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...the time I had drank my tea, 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...
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