Frankenstein: or, The modern PrometheusG. and W.G. Whittaker,., 1823 |
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... wind of promise , my day dreams become more fervent and vivid . I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and de- solation ; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There ...
... wind of promise , my day dreams become more fervent and vivid . I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and de- solation ; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight . There ...
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... impossible ; one might as well try to overtake the winds , or confine a mountain - stream with a straw . " " I do not know what you mean ; but we were all very unhappy when she was discovered . H 5 THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 153.
... impossible ; one might as well try to overtake the winds , or confine a mountain - stream with a straw . " " I do not know what you mean ; but we were all very unhappy when she was discovered . H 5 THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 153.
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... wind ; and sometimes , after row- ing into the middle of the lake , I left the boat to pursue its own course , and gave way to my own miserable re- flections . I was often tempted , when all was at peace around me , and I the THE MODERN ...
... wind ; and sometimes , after row- ing into the middle of the lake , I left the boat to pursue its own course , and gave way to my own miserable re- flections . I was often tempted , when all was at peace around me , and I the THE MODERN ...
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88 psl. - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I F2 embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
80 psl. - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
86 psl. - I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open ; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom, with such infinite pains and care, I had endeavoured to form?
85 psl. - IT was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
220 psl. - My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense ; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea, and executed the creation of a man.
201 psl. - It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.
62 psl. - But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
251 psl. - I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
50 psl. - my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union. This expectation will now be the consolation of your father. Elizabeth, my love, you must supply...
247 psl. - Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with contumely? Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?