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... countenance is lighted up , as it were , with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled . But he is generally melancholy and despairing ; and some- times he gnashes his teeth , as if impatient of the weight of woes ...
... countenance is lighted up , as it were , with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled . But he is generally melancholy and despairing ; and some- times he gnashes his teeth , as if impatient of the weight of woes ...
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... countenance . At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion ; he placed his hands before his eyes ; and my voice quivered and failed me , as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers , a groan burst from his ...
... countenance . At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion ; he placed his hands before his eyes ; and my voice quivered and failed me , as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers , a groan burst from his ...
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... countenance became expres- sive of a calm settled grief , that touched me to the heart . But he was silent , and presently retired to his cabin . Even broken in spirit as he is , no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of ...
... countenance became expres- sive of a calm settled grief , that touched me to the heart . But he was silent , and presently retired to his cabin . Even broken in spirit as he is , no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of ...
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... countenance expressed affection even in death . I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil ; the void that presents itself to the soul ; and the despair that is exhibited on the ...
... countenance expressed affection even in death . I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil ; the void that presents itself to the soul ; and the despair that is exhibited on the ...
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... countenances . I loved my brothers , Elizabeth , and Clerval ; these were old familiar faces ; " but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers . Such were my reflec- tions as I commenced my journey ; but as I pro ...
... countenances . I loved my brothers , Elizabeth , and Clerval ; these were old familiar faces ; " but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers . Such were my reflec- tions as I commenced my journey ; but as I pro ...
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Page 219 - 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.
Page 104 - I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.
Page 64 - The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera 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. They ascend into the heavens; they...
Page 79 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt Delighted and surprised, I 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.
Page 77 - 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.
Page xiii - The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence.
Page 134 - We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away...
Page 205 - His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I...
Page 140 - 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.
Page 137 - Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.