 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 ページ
...any body ever saw it before ? I hardly believe it. LETTER CXVI. MR GRAY TO MR WALPOLE. i Sunday, Dec. 30, 1764. • I HAVE received the Castle of Otranto,...return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention heref, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights. We take it... | |
 | 1821 - 394 ページ
...and return * As he had written on the subject, this mistake was natural enough in count Algarotti. you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,*...cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe i't to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 ページ
...thoroughly apprised to whose correction he submitted. CXXI. TO MR. WALPOLE. Sunday, December 30, 1764. 1 HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return you...cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nisthts. We take it fora translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not fur... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 ページ
...whether Fingal be discovered or shrewdly suspected to be a forgery. Adieu ! I am yours ever. LETTER XV. Sunday, December 30, 1764. I HAVE received the Castle...our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, * At Cambridge. and all in general afraid to go to-beds o'nights. We take it for a translation, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 ページ
...authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on 80th December, 1764 : " I have received The Castle of Otranto, and...you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry aiit tic ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 ページ
...authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on 30th December, 1764 : " I have received The Castle of Otranto, and...you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o^ights.... | |
 | 1904 - 738 ページ
...exciting horror with the next. We have gone far since Walpole's Castle of Otranto made its readers " cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." To us the gloomy Gothic vaults and dungeons, the monstrous helmet and its sable plumes seem merely... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 ページ
...authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on December 3o, i 764: « I have received The Castle of Otranto, and return...you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here (ie at Cambridge), makes some of us cry a little; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights.... | |
 | 1825 - 610 ページ
...Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (»'. -.-. at Cambridge,) makes Some of us cry a little; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 ページ
...whether Fingal be discovered or shrewdly suspected to be a forgery. Adieu ! I am yours ever. LETTER xv. Sunday, December 30, 1764. I HAVE received the Castle...of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to-bed o'nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were... | |
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We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas. 
