Frankenstein: Or, The Modern PrometheusLackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818 - Horror tales, English |
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... resolve to interrupt my returning tranquillity . My health , which had hitherto declined , was now much restored ; and my spi- rits , when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise , rose proportion- ably . My father saw this change ...
... resolve to interrupt my returning tranquillity . My health , which had hitherto declined , was now much restored ; and my spi- rits , when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise , rose proportion- ably . My father saw this change ...
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... resolved to fulfil my promise while abroad , and return , if possible , a free man . Filled with dreary imaginations , I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes ; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving . I could only think of ...
... resolved to fulfil my promise while abroad , and return , if possible , a free man . Filled with dreary imaginations , I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes ; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving . I could only think of ...
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... resolved to post the remainder of our way ; for the wind was contrary , and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us . Our journey here lost the interest arising from beautiful scenery ; but we arrived in a THE MODERN PROMETHEUS ...
... resolved to post the remainder of our way ; for the wind was contrary , and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us . Our journey here lost the interest arising from beautiful scenery ; but we arrived in a THE MODERN PROMETHEUS ...
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... resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle . The night passed away , and the sun rose from the ocean ; my feelings be came calmer , if it may be called calm- ness , when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of ...
... resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle . The night passed away , and the sun rose from the ocean ; my feelings be came calmer , if it may be called calm- ness , when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of ...
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... resolved in my own mind , that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness ; and I ba- nished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion ...
... resolved in my own mind , that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness ; and I ba- nished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion ...
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