...afterwards wrote, " to write a history,and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...even if it were destined to fall dead from the press. ... It was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write...

...authorship. For I had not first made vp my mind to write a history, tand then cast about to take vp a subject. My subject had taken up me, drawn me on,...had no inclination or interest to write any other." The same inspiration is partially ob'vious in those portions of every history which come home to the...

...necessary for nie, it seemed, to write the book J had been thinking viuch of, — even if it icere destined to fall dead from the press, — and I had no inclination or interett to write any other." The same inspiration is partially obvious in those portions of every...

...up my mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...had made up my mind accordingly, it then occurred to mo that Prescott might not be pleased that I should come forward upon his ground. It is true, that...

...up my mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...been thinking much of, even if it were destined to Ml dead from the press, and I had no inclination or interest to write any other. When I had made up...

...fubjecl: had taken me up, drawn me on, and abforbed me into itfelf. It was neceflary for me, it feemed, to write the book I had been thinking much of, even if it were deftined to fall dead from the prefs, and I had no inclination or intereft to write any other. When...

...and ascertain from his own lips his views of the matter. " My subject," he says, " had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...fall dead from the press, and I had no inclination to write any other." Prescott received Motley in the very kindest spirit; he dissuaded him from abandoning...

...mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, and drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...seemed, to write the book I had been thinking much of, and I had no inclination or interest to write any other.' Yet Motley thought upon reflection that it...

...mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, and drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...seemed, to write the book I had been thinking much of, and I had no inclination or interest to write any other." Yet Motley thought upon reflection that it...

...mind to write a history, and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me up, and drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary...seemed, to write the book I had been thinking much of, and I had no inclination or interest to write any other.' Yet Motley thought upon reflection that it...