 His 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; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;...  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 3781818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pàgines
...»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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 pàgines
...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 "... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pàgines
...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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