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" Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began... "
Frankenstein, second edition - Page 363
by Mary Shelley - 1999 - 364 pages
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The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1

Mrs. Julian Marshall - Women novelists, English - 1889 - 410 pages
...any probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin (I speak not of what the doctor really did,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motioa Not thus, after all, ff ould life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated ; galvanism...
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Das Übersinnliche im englischen Roman: (Von Horace Walpole bis Walter Scott)

Wilhelm Ad Paterna - English fiction - 1915 - 154 pages
...Shelley to which I was a devout . . . listener. . . . They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, . . . who preserved a piece of' vermicelli in a glass case,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all,, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvinism had given...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 10

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 762 pages
...any probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated ; galvanism had given...
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The Romantic Age in Prose: An Anthology

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of she experiments of Dr. Darwin 32 (I speak not of what the doctor really did, or said...as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of having been done by him), who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass till by some extraordinary...
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Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. 1 - They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given...
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The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines

Bruce Mazlish - Technology & Engineering - 1993 - 288 pages
...ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experiments of Dr. [Erasmusi Darwin.. - who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.” In Frankenstein, much ambivalence pervades the scientific quest. “What had been the study and desire...
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Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837

Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner - English literature - 1994 - 356 pages
...France 2: 86—88. s. Mary Shelley writes: They [Byron and Shelley] talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin (I speak not of what the doctor really did...what was then spoken of as having been done by him. (Fnznkenstein xxiv) 6. The spelling “Lctitia” here follows the forthcoming edition of Barbauld's...
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Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function

Stanley Finger - Brain - 2001 - 484 pages
...ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experiments of Dr. (Erasmus) Darwin.. . who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case,...extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given...
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Progress, Poverty, and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus

John Avery - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 194 pages
...between Lord By'ron and Shelley', Mary wrote later: They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin ... who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case,...by some extraordinary means it began to move with a voluntary' motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated;...
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Progress, Poverty, and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus

John Avery - Business & Economics - 1997 - 168 pages
...between Lord Byron and Shelley', Mary wrote later: They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin ... who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case,...by some extraordinary means it began to move with a voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated;...
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