 After tea, 12 o'clock, really began to talk ghostly. Lord Byron repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands to his head, ran out of the room with a...  Byron - Page 69by Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...Byron repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast ; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands...; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." Medwin sayst that this story of the pectoral eyes was to have been the subject-matter of the romance... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Michael Rossetti - 1881 - 482 pages
...of a He lenist, is copied of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands...; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." Medwin says1 that this story of the pectoral eyes was to have been the subject-matter of the romance... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1886 - 218 pages
...of a He lenist, is copied of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands...nipples; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." Medwin says1 that this story of the pectoral . eyes was to have been the subject-matter of the romance... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 184 pages
...Byron repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands...nipples; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." Medwin says1 that this story of the pectoral eyes was to have been the subject-matter of the romance... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1886 - 616 pages
...head, ran out of the room with a candle." " Threw water on his face," the physician continues, " and gave him ether. He was looking at Mrs. Shelley, and...taking hold of his mind, horrified him." When the horror passed away and calm was restored, " We will each write a ghost story," said Byron, and, with... | |
 | Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 pages
...to tell ! And she is to sleep by Christabel. Seized with horror, Shelley uttered a piercing cry ; he suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of, who had eyes instead of nipples. When he had recovered and calm was restored, Byron proposed that each one should write a ghost story.... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1909 - 348 pages
...after which Shelley suddenly ran shrieking out of the room. He said that he was looking at Mary and thought of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples to her breasts. This took possession of his mind and horrified him. When he was recovered Byron proposed... | |
 | John William Polidori - 1911 - 244 pages
...ghostly. L[ord] B[yron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's witch's breast ; when silence ejisued, jmd Shelley, suddenly shrieking and putting his hands...nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him. — He married ; and, a friend of his liking his wife, he tried all he could to induce her to love... | |
 | Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, Sir Archibald Strong - 1921 - 204 pages
...6, 1822. gruesome mystery of Geraldine's bosom, he ran shrieking from the room, saying ' that he had suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had...nipples ; which taking hold of his mind horrified him '. This visionary faculty of Shelley's had its counterpart in his extraordinarily sensitive physical... | |
 | Einar Nylén - 1924 - 320 pages
...Byron repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking, and putting his hands...nipples; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him. »2) Det anförda visar tillräckligt att Shelley kraftigt, och ej blott under sina tidigaste år,... | |
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