Frankenstein: Or, The Modern PrometheusLackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818 - Horror tales, English |
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... Cursed be the day , abhorred devil , in which you first saw light ! Cursed ( although I curse myself ) be the hands that formed you ! You have made me wretched beyond expression . You have left me no power to consider whether I am just ...
... Cursed be the day , abhorred devil , in which you first saw light ! Cursed ( although I curse myself ) be the hands that formed you ! You have made me wretched beyond expression . You have left me no power to consider whether I am just ...
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... Cursed creator ! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in dis- gust ? God in pity made man beauti- ful and alluring , after his own image ; but my form is a filthy type of your's , more horrid from its very ...
... Cursed creator ! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in dis- gust ? God in pity made man beauti- ful and alluring , after his own image ; but my form is a filthy type of your's , more horrid from its very ...
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... cursed him . " Autumn passed thus . I saw , with surprise and grief , the leaves decay and fall , and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon . Yet I did not heed ...
... cursed him . " Autumn passed thus . I saw , with surprise and grief , the leaves decay and fall , and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon . Yet I did not heed ...
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... him on the point of repeating his blow , when , overcome by pain and anguish , I quitted the cottage , and in the gene- ral tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel . CHAPTER VIII . 66 CURSED , cursed creator ! Why THE MODERN PROMETHEUS .
... him on the point of repeating his blow , when , overcome by pain and anguish , I quitted the cottage , and in the gene- ral tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel . CHAPTER VIII . 66 CURSED , cursed creator ! Why THE MODERN PROMETHEUS .
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Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. CHAPTER VIII . 66 CURSED , cursed creator ! Why did I live ? Why , in that instant , did I not extinguish the spark of existence . which you had so wantonly bestowed ? I know not ...
Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. CHAPTER VIII . 66 CURSED , cursed creator ! Why did I live ? Why , in that instant , did I not extinguish the spark of existence . which you had so wantonly bestowed ? I know not ...
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