 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) - 1891 - 348 pages
...them for ever. • "But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, " I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries...torturing flames. The light of that conflagration %ill fade away ; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace ;... | |
 | Margaret Armour - Fiction - 1898 - 222 pages
...close them for ever. " But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, " I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt Soon these burning miseries...in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of the conflagration will fade away : my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 514 pages
...of pity. " Fear not that I shall be the instrument of further mischief," he said. "Soon I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. My ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace." He sprang from the... | |
 | George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 368 pages
...the Monster says it: "But soon," he cried with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries...fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell." [P.... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...close them for ever. "But soon,'' he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "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 tri- 5 umphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
...drowning waters, is reminiscent of the climax of Wagner's Gotterdammerung: I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall mount my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 216 pages
...earns him the right to be considered human at last, but even Walton realizes that he is more than this. "I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames," the creature finally cries. "My ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds" (223). Thus he realizes... | |
 | Lee Quinby - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 274 pages
...shall die. I shall no longer feel — I shall be no more. I shall no longer see — I shall die — Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile" (210-11). Amid the voices that everywhere echo each other, the sustained repetition in Shelley's prose,... | |
 | Lee Quinby - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 478 pages
...shall die. I shall no longer feel — I shall be no more. I shall no longer see — I shall die — Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile" (210-11). Amid the voices that everywhere echo each other, the sustained repetition in Shelley's prose,... | |
 | Herman L. Sinaiko - Philosophy - 1998 - 358 pages
...close them forever. "But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries...exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light ofthat conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will... | |
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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. 
