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" Night waned upon this talk, and even the witching hour had gone by, before we retired to rest. When I placed my head on my pillow, 1 did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive... "
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science - Page 17
1851
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The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in ...

1834 - 498 pages
...retired to rest. When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me,...arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed...
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...retired to rest. When I had placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me,...arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed...
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Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 1

Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 332 pages
...me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental...kneeling beside the thing he had put together. . . . I opened my eyes in terror. The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me and I...
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Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 1

Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 334 pages
...retired to rest. When I had placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me,...arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 502 pages
...retired to rest. When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me,...gifting the successive images that arose in my mind witli a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental...
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A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 pages
...monster coming to consciousness under the operations of Frankenstein, ' the modern Prometheus ' : ' the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together,' which begins to ' stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' The crimes of this giant, who stifles women...
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A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pages
...monster coming to consciousness under the operations of Frankenstein, ' the modern Prometheus ' : ' the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together,' which begins to ' stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' The crimes of this giant, who stifles women...
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Skräckromantik: studier i tysk och engelsk förromantik

Einar Nylén - 1924 - 322 pages
...förväntningar, man i detta fall kunde ställa på galvanismen. Mrs Shelleys fantasi bemäktigar sig detta stoff: »I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the påle student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm...
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British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914

Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 332 pages
...f¿rasmus J)arwin, Mrs. Shelley had a waking nightmare in which she •IW 4 “j¿aJ¿ $tUdCflt ‘4 unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the bijsq,ijs phantasm (if a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some ¿w,w,¿ful ¿ngitie,...
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Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 pages
...retired to rest. When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me,...reverie. I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental 1- Polidori's Diary for 15 June records a conversation between himself and Shelley "about principles,...
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