Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then they were arrived at the Haddens' door. He saw Alice at the window of the front parlor. She was leaning out, waving a long white robe...
...cannot think of it without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...
...face that he hitherto had seen but indistinctly was growing terribly clear to him. Line by line it assumed form and proportion. He looked and saw an awful phantasm - HIMSELF...
...walked through the wilderness of this world, I laid me down and slept. And in a dream a fair oasis met my sight, and I saw one Lighthead leave a fair city in this oasis, parting from father and mother, from brother and from sister, yea, from his cousin also. And on his back was strapped a great burden of books, but in his head had he none. And Lighthead journeyed forth from his kindred thus, declaring that he would learn wisdom and taste of the tree of knowledge. And as he went (gently reclining in a Palace...
...next I saw Lighthead joined to a band, more than two hundred strong, which was going to abide in Vanity Fair four years. And the burden of books that was upon him grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often...