| New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...but acute mental vision— I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motioa Frightful must it be ; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Monsters - 1888 - 328 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be ; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human... | |
| Mrs. Julian Marshall - Women novelists, English - 1889 - 400 pages
...acute mental vision, — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be ; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human... | |
| Mrs. Julian Marshall - Women novelists, English - 1889 - 410 pages
...— I saw tie pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had pet together — I iaw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out. and then,...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half -vital motion. Frighrfol must it be ; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) - 1891 - 348 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be ; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human... | |
| George Eyre-Todd - Authors - 1898 - 170 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...life, and stir with an uneasy half-vital motion." Here was the germ of a story. The dreamer awoke realistically conscious of the horrid spectre standing... | |
| Wilhelm Ad Paterna - English fiction - 1915 - 154 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together, I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour... | |
| Dorothy Scarborough - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 362 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man...working of some powerful engine, show signs of life. . . . The artist sleeps but he is awakened; and behold, the horrid thing stands at his bedside, looking... | |
| Einar Nylén - English literature - 1924 - 322 pages
...acute mental vision — I saw the påle student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working on some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful... | |
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