 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - Страниц: 618
...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, and 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 - Страниц: 394
...mistake was natural enough in count Algarotti. you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general...translation, and should believe i't to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas. When your pen was in your hand you might have been a little more communicative... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - Страниц: 548
...shrewdly suspected to be a forgery. Adieu ! I am yours ever. LETTER XV. Sunday, December 30, 1764. I HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return...my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, * At Cambridge. and all in general afraid to go to-beds o'nights. We... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - Страниц: 492
...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 my thanks for it It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nisthts. We take it fora translation,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Страниц: 762
...of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on 30th December, 1764- : " m cheerily. But I would have thee never fear, Trim, replied my uncle if it were not for St Nicholas.'" The friends of the author, as appears from the letter already quoted,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Страниц: 764
...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 return...little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o^ights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - Страниц: 768
...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 return...attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry aiit tic ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should... | |
 | 1904 - Страниц: 738
...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... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 610
...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 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.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - Страниц: 468
...shrewdly suspected to be a forgery. Adieu ! I am yours ever. LETTER xv. Sunday, December 30, 1764. I HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return...my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to-bed o'nights. We take it for a translation,... | |
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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. 
