 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
 | Einar Nylén - 1924 - 322 pages
...out of the room with a candle. Threw water in his face, and after gave him ether. He was looking ät mrs Shelley, and suddenly thought of a woman he had...nipples; which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him.»8) Det anförda visar tillräckligt att Shelley kraftigt, och ej blott under sina tidigaste år,... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - 1927 - 622 pages
...Sun,, June 2, 1816. p. 348, col. I. ether." Then the diarist explains what had thus upset Shelley. "He was looking at Mrs. Shelley, and suddenly thought...of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples,38 which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." " Three days after these amazing occurrences,... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - 1927 - 650 pages
...Sun., June 2, 1816. p. 348, col. 1. ether." Then the diarist explains what had thus upset Shelley. "He was looking at Mrs. Shelley, and suddenly thought...of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples,30 which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." s7 Three days after these amazing occurrences,... | |
 | David Marshall - 1988 - 308 pages
...to scream and run out of the room; he explained that looking at his wife while hearing the lines, he "suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples." See The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, ed. WM Rossetti (London: Elkin Mathews, 1911), pp. 128-29.... | |
 | Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi - 1992 - 332 pages
...displacement involved in the lines themselves makes Shelley's hallucinatory vision, while looking at Mary, of "a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples" (Polidori 128) a strong response to the poem, to be sure, but one with textual justification. 10. Freud... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...recite from the poem in the summer of 1816, is reported to have run shrieking from the room because he "suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had...nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him").47 The deletion, however, left two consecutive unrhymed lines in the paragraph (251-52), and... | |
 | Miranda Seymour - 2000 - 722 pages
...the room with a candle. Threw water in his face and after gave him ether. He was looking at Mrs S, & suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had...nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him.19 A local doctor was called in; Polidori undertook to sit up with Shelley while the others, frightened... | |
 | James Bieri - 2004 - 472 pages
...water in his face and gave him ether." Shelley, who was looking at Mary when Byron spoke the lines, "suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had...nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him." Later, Polidori wrote that Shelley's "wild imagination . . . pictured ... the bosom of one of the ladies... | |
 | Christopher John Murray - 2004 - 664 pages
...Christaber which caused Percy to run "shrieking . . . out of the room" because he had suddenly recalled "a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples." Polidori threw water in his face "and after gave him ether." Yet Polidori never became an intimate... | |
 | Thomas R. Frosch - 2007 - 368 pages
...deformed" bosom, traditional mark of supernatural evil.-" Shelley later explained his reaction to Polidori: "He was looking at Mrs. S[helley] , and suddenly thought...nipples, which taking hold of his mind, horrified him."29 This is a fantasy of being looked at not only suddenly and terrifyingly but also from a completely... | |
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