It was a dark and stormy night.'
Possibly the worst one of all is, quote, 'The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens,' while a close runner-up is '`Ho, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?'' FTP, name the novelist of these bad opening lines, as well as the comparatively respectable 'It was a dark and stormy night.'
Possibly the worst one of all is, quote, 'The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens,' while a close runner-up is '`Ho, Diomed, well met!
Edward {Bulwer-Lytton} (prompt on an early 'Rienzi')