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" I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics - In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one... "
The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters ... - Page 379
by Horace Walpole - 1842
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote, from 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 the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from 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 the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

1817 - 504 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrute from the time I had drunk ray 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 the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one...hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 808 pages
...than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two mouths*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left oft' Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph....
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 782 pages
...than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and ringers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left off .Matilda...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 792 pages
...than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two 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 were so weary,...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank Trim, for a penny. Trim attempted to thank my uncle Toby, — but had not pow hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from 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 the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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Lives of the novelists, Volumes 1-2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...tale, which 1 completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from 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 the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...
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