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The Quarterly Review - Page 378
1818
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 18

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...describe my emotions sit this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form ? His limbs were...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. ' The different accidents of life are not so changeable...
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Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 18

Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God ! — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " The different accidents of life are not so...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...the same colour as the dun white sockets in which thpy were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " The different accidents of life...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...»kin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneatli ; his hair was of a lustrous hlack and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but...watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour > the duo white sockets in which they were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips,...
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On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great God!— His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...as the dun white sockets in which they were set— his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." Frankenstein, vol. ip 97, 98. The Monster in "...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and 1 had selected his fentuies as beautiful Beautiful ! — Great God t His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; hut these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of mnscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous...teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances ouly formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the...
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Macaulay

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; bis hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances...
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