 Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.  The Works of Lord Byron - 第 447 頁George Gordon Byron Baron Byron 著 - 1904完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1851 - 588 頁
...elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos ; tlie materials must, in the first place, be afforded : it can give form to dark, shapeless substances,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 500 頁
...elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a torto1se. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention confists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 頁
...elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists on the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject; and in the power of moulding and fashioning... | |
 | Robert Dale Parker - 1988 - 194 頁
...and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. . . . Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. If she cannot think of a story, she uses her failure, defensively, as a chance to observe that no one... | |
 | Meena Alexander - 1989 - 240 頁
...and that beginning must be linked to something that went before . . . Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. (F.8) For Mary Shelley, the roots of a Romantic mythology lay not in intense, metaphysical claims about... | |
 | Gayle L. Ormiston, Raphael Sassower - 1989 - 178 頁
...ideas of evolution that were articulated by his grandson Charles), Shelley explains that invention "does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"; it consists in "the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject and in the power of molding... | |
 | Juan Bruce-Novoa - 1990 - 196 頁
...Space: Cultural Criticism/Cultural Production Invention . . . does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: or, the Modem Prometheus, x. Almost fifteen years have passed since I addressed... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley - 1993 - 212 頁
...elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg.7 Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power... | |
 | Steven Goldsmith - 1993 - 346 頁
...elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...but cannot bring into being the substance itself" (Frankenstein, 226). One recalls Jakobson's patient for whom original words and autonomous subjectivity... | |
 | Elsie Browning Michie - 1993 - 212 頁
...following paragraph where Shelley, in discussing cosmogony, asserts that: "invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void,...but cannot bring into being the substance itself" (x). In "humbly" insisting that creation does not come out of nothing, Shelley here suggests that her... | |
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