Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusJames Pott, 1910 - 353 pages |
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... dark , shapeless substances , but cannot bring into being the substance itself . In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the imagination , we are continu- ally reminded of the story of Columbus and ...
... dark , shapeless substances , but cannot bring into being the substance itself . In all matters of discovery and invention , even of those that appertain to the imagination , we are continu- ally reminded of the story of Columbus and ...
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... that a thrill of fear ran through me and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around . I see them still : the very room , the dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight 16 Preface .
... that a thrill of fear ran through me and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around . I see them still : the very room , the dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight 16 Preface .
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight struggling through , and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond . I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. dark parquet , the closed shutters , with the moonlight struggling through , and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond . I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. lay to until the morning , fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice . I profited of this time to rest for a few hours . In the morning ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. lay to until the morning , fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice . I profited of this time to rest for a few hours . In the morning ...
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... Dark- ness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life ... darkness a sudden light broke in upon me , a light so brilliant and wondrous , yet so simple , that while I became ...
... Dark- ness had no effect upon my fancy ; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life ... darkness a sudden light broke in upon me , a light so brilliant and wondrous , yet so simple , that while I became ...
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