Frankenstein: or, The modern PrometheusG. and W.G. Whittaker,., 1823 |
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... resolved on my present undertaking . I can , even now , remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise . I commenced by inuring my body to hardship . I accompanied the whale- fishers on several expeditions to ...
... resolved on my present undertaking . I can , even now , remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise . I commenced by inuring my body to hardship . I accompanied the whale- fishers on several expeditions to ...
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... resolved every night , when I am not engaged , to record , as nearly as possible in his own words , what he has related during the day . If I should be engaged , I will at least make notes . This manuscript will doubtless afford you the ...
... resolved every night , when I am not engaged , to record , as nearly as possible in his own words , what he has related during the day . If I should be engaged , I will at least make notes . This manuscript will doubtless afford you the ...
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... resolved to seek him out , and endeavour to persuade him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance . Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself ; and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode ...
... resolved to seek him out , and endeavour to persuade him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance . Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself ; and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode ...
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... resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt . I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva ; but my father thought it necessary , for the comple- tion of my education , that I should be made acquainted with ...
... resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt . I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva ; but my father thought it necessary , for the comple- tion of my education , that I should be made acquainted with ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?