 WHAT a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber ; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that...  The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic - ˹éÒ 183â´Â Elizabeth Bisland - 1906 - 313 ˹éÒÁØÁÁͧ·Ñé§àÅèÁ - à¡ÕèÂǡѺ˹ѧÊ×ÍàÅèÁ¹Õé
 | 1913 - 916 ˹éÒ
...overwhelming sense of its unreality. Rather with delight I listen to Robert Louis Stevenson: — * " What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming! and yet, looked at nearlier, known... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 322 ˹éÒ
...and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million miles away. II. WHAT a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming;—and yet looked at nearlier, known... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 452 ˹éÒ
...speed, and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million miles away. What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face ; a thing to set children screaming ; — and yet looked at nearlier,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 ˹éÒ
...speed, and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million lies away. II What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming; — and yet looked at nearlier, known... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 456 ˹éÒ
...speed, and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million miles away. What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face ; a thing to set children screaming ; — and yet looked at nearlier,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 ˹éÒ
...speed, and turns alternate cheeks to the reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million lies away. II What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bring1 PULVIS ET UMBRA ing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 ˹éÒ
...intoned voluntary played upon the more sombre emotions. "What a monstrous spectre is this man, 240 the disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged in slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 ˹éÒ
...intoned voluntary played upon the more sombre emotions. "What a monstrous spectre is this man, 240 the disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged in slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 232 ˹éÒ
...out of the mountain, is a mere issue of worms ; even in the hard rock the crystal is forming . . . What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like glass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face ; a thing to set children screaming ; —... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 216 ˹éÒ
...bursts out of the mountain, is a mere issue of worms; even in the hard rock the crystal is forming . . . What a monstrous spectre is this man, the disease...small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like glass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming;—and... | |
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