451 Mary Shelley
The History of Literature
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The Witching Hour Was Almost Over, and I Did Not Sleep.
"I saw, with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, I saw the pale student of unhalowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life." "His success would terrify the artist. He would rush away from his odious handiwork horror-stricken," said Sir Thomas More. 'It is supremely frightful for any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world'
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