Frankenstein: or, The modern PrometheusG. and W.G. Whittaker,., 1823 |
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... North Sea ; I voluntarily endured cold , famine , thirst , and want of sleep ; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day , and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics , the theory of 6 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
... North Sea ; I voluntarily endured cold , famine , thirst , and want of sleep ; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day , and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics , the theory of 6 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
Pàgina 14
... endure to spill blood . He is , moreover , heroically generous . Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady , of mo- derate fortune ; and having amassed a considerable sum in prize - money , the father of the girl consented to the ...
... endure to spill blood . He is , moreover , heroically generous . Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady , of mo- derate fortune ; and having amassed a considerable sum in prize - money , the father of the girl consented to the ...
Pàgina 36
... endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes . I felt the greatest eager- ness to hear the promised narrative , partly from curiosity , and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate , if it were in my ...
... endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes . I felt the greatest eager- ness to hear the promised narrative , partly from curiosity , and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate , if it were in my ...
Pàgina 47
... endured . I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world ; she busied herself in following the aërial creations of the poets . The world was to me a secret , which I desired to dis- cover ; to her it was a vacancy ...
... endured . I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world ; she busied herself in following the aërial creations of the poets . The world was to me a secret , which I desired to dis- cover ; to her it was a vacancy ...
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Pàgina 88 - 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.
Pàgina 80 - 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.
Pàgina 86 - 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?
Pàgina 85 - 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.
Pàgina 220 - 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.
Pàgina 201 - 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.
Pàgina 62 - 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.
Pàgina 251 - 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.
Pàgina 50 - 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...
Pàgina 247 - 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?