 Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness...  Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus - Pàgina 121per Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 177 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pàgines
...fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me ; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling... | |
 | Margaret Armour - 1898 - 222 pàgines
...fiendish threats ; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me ; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race. refuge in wide and desert heaths ; and he now came to mark my progress, and claim the fulfilment of... | |
 | Langdon Winner - 1978 - 400 pàgines
...the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror." 1 " "I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race." 1 ^ Recognizing what he believes to be a heroic responsibility, Victor commits an act of violence.... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 pàgines
...fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my 30 promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...perhaps of the existence of the whole human race. ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted... | |
 | Eric S. Rabkin - 1983 - 548 pàgines
...fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 pàgines
...Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? ... I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race. (158-59) Later Victor tells his father of the monster's victims: "A thousand times would I have shed... | |
 | Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra - 1997 - 494 pàgines
...the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror."12 "I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race."13 Recognizing what he believes to be a heroic responsibility, Victor commits an act of violence.... | |
 | Robert Mighall - 2003 - 344 pàgines
...would make the very existence of the species of man precarious and full of terror. ... I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race'.1 ' As will be argued, an historical dimension is central to the Gothic mode; compelling Count... | |
 | Berthold Schoene-Harwood - 2000 - 216 pàgines
...I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? ... I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...perhaps of the existence of the whole human race. (F 1818, p. 138) What does Victor Frankenstein truly fear, which causes him to end his creation of... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 2001 - 228 pàgines
...fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their...on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling... | |
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