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... they are entirely confined to such parts as are mere adjuncts to the story , leaving the core and substance of it untouched . M. W. S. LONDON , October 15 , 1831 . PREFACE . THE HE event on which this fiction is xii INTRODUCTION .
... they are entirely confined to such parts as are mere adjuncts to the story , leaving the core and substance of it untouched . M. W. S. LONDON , October 15 , 1831 . PREFACE . THE HE event on which this fiction is xii INTRODUCTION .
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... leave , my sister , I will put some trust in preceding navigators - there snow and frost are banished ; and , sailing over a calm sea , we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto dis- covered on ...
... leave , my sister , I will put some trust in preceding navigators - there snow and frost are banished ; and , sailing over a calm sea , we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto dis- covered on ...
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... leaving her the sea - room in which she floated . Our situation was somewhat danger- ous , especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog . We accordingly lay to , hoping that some change would take place in the atmos- phere ...
... leaving her the sea - room in which she floated . Our situation was somewhat danger- ous , especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog . We accordingly lay to , hoping that some change would take place in the atmos- phere ...
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... leaving her an orphan and a beggar . This last blow overcame her ; and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin , weeping bitterly , when my father entered the chamber . He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl , who committed herself to ...
... leaving her an orphan and a beggar . This last blow overcame her ; and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin , weeping bitterly , when my father entered the chamber . He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl , who committed herself to ...
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... leave the repose , akin to death , of the house of mourning , and to rush into the thick of life . I was new to sorrow , but it did not the less alarm me . I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me ; and , above all ...
... leave the repose , akin to death , of the house of mourning , and to rush into the thick of life . I was new to sorrow , but it did not the less alarm me . I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me ; and , above all ...
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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.