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,... Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus - Page 88by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprized, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, nnd I thought that I held the corpse of ray dead mother in my arms; a shrowd enveloped her form, and... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...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...arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave* worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ; a cold dew... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, 1 embraced her; bai a» I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became...hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and 1 thought that I held the corpse of mv dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and 1 saw... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...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...enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling io the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ; a cold dew covered my forehead,... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...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...appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse _^ J of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling... | |
| 1818 - 586 pages
...the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her j but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shrowd enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) - 1891 - 348 pages
...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...arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave- ' worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ; a cold dew... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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...arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ; a cold dew... | |
| Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1899 - 554 pages
...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...arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ; a cold dew... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of hea'.th, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave- worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror, a cold dew... | |
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