 | Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Downing A. Thomas - 2006 - 302 ページ
...myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.2' In December his slender volume was anonymously published as The Castle of Otranto and published... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - 2006 - 255 ページ
...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...armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write . . . add that I was glad to think of anything rather than politics . . . 3 The turn away from politics... | |
 | Heidi Strengell - 2005 - 324 ページ
...idea for Otranto came to Walpole in a dream: "I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and ... on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour" (Walpole, vii). In the novel the hand grows into a gigantic statue and the nemesis of the story. Although... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1845 - 236 ページ
...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 of the great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write,... | |
 | 1876 - 880 ページ
...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 banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
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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 banister of... 
