Shelley Memorials: From Authentic SourcesLady Jane Gibson Shelley Henry S. King, 1875 - 290 páginas |
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... Stories of haunted castles , bandits , murderers , and various grim creations of fancy , were his favourites ; and in after years he began his literary life by writing similar wild romances . When at Field Place during the vacations ...
... Stories of haunted castles , bandits , murderers , and various grim creations of fancy , were his favourites ; and in after years he began his literary life by writing similar wild romances . When at Field Place during the vacations ...
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... story of Eyes and no Eyes ) the walk of one indivi- dual along a given road may be as different from that of another along the same path as a plenum is different from a vacuum . While the old servant , probably , saw little but the dust ...
... story of Eyes and no Eyes ) the walk of one indivi- dual along a given road may be as different from that of another along the same path as a plenum is different from a vacuum . While the old servant , probably , saw little but the dust ...
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... stories over again . The compilers are a sort of middle class between the real authors and the makers of dictionaries . True reading is investigation — not a passive reception of what our author gives us , but an active inquiry ...
... stories over again . The compilers are a sort of middle class between the real authors and the makers of dictionaries . True reading is investigation — not a passive reception of what our author gives us , but an active inquiry ...
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... story of his life complete , and which few now living , except Shelley's own children , have ever perused . One mistake which has gone forth to the world , we feel ourselves called upon positively to contradict . Harriet's death has ...
... story of his life complete , and which few now living , except Shelley's own children , have ever perused . One mistake which has gone forth to the world , we feel ourselves called upon positively to contradict . Harriet's death has ...
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... stories . Each was to write one of these fasci- nating toys of the imagination ; and Mrs. Shelley's extraordinary romance of Frankenstein was the result , as far as herself was concerned , and indeed the only one of the proposed ...
... stories . Each was to write one of these fasci- nating toys of the imagination ; and Mrs. Shelley's extraordinary romance of Frankenstein was the result , as far as herself was concerned , and indeed the only one of the proposed ...
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