...bark and leaf, and on the secret inner lining of the female body, as Gilbert and Gubar quote Shelley: "a white filmy substance resembling the inner part of the green hood which shelters the grain of unripe Indian corn."52 With effort, they can be deciphered. In Gilbert and Gubar's reading of Shelley,...

...ruin it had made above, had been repaired by the growth of vegetation during many hundred summers. The rest of the furniture of the cavern consisted...to attain this point, and seated ourselves on the AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION 3 rocky couch, while the sounds of tinkling sheep-bells, and shout of shepherdboy,...

...with an arched dome-like roof" (2), a setting worthy of a painting by John Martin. There they find "piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy...hood which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn"(3). (In The Madwoman in the Attic Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar call attention to the specifically...

...insists on going forward, through a network of "passages," into an interior cavern, where they find piles of leaves, fragments of bark, and a white filmy...which shelters the grain of the unripe Indian corn. ... At length my friend, who had taken up some of the leaves strewed about, exclaimed, "This is the...

...ruin it had made above, had been repaired by the growth of vegetation during many hundred summers. The rest of the furniture of the cavern consisted...who had taken up some of the leaves strewed about, IX exclaimed, "This is the Sibyl's cave; these are Sibylline leaves." On examination, we found that...