Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusJames Pott, 1910 - 353 pages |
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... tion , apply to prose fiction a license , or rather a rule , from the adoption of which so many ex- quisite combinations of human feeling have re- sulted in the highest specimens of poetry . The circumstance on which my story rests was ...
... tion , apply to prose fiction a license , or rather a rule , from the adoption of which so many ex- quisite combinations of human feeling have re- sulted in the highest specimens of poetry . The circumstance on which my story rests was ...
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... tion , and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone , I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal in- trusion . It is not singular , that , as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary ...
... tion , and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone , I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal in- trusion . It is not singular , that , as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary ...
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... mountains near , that my true compositions , the airy flights of my imagina- tion , were born and fostered . myself the heroine of my tales . I did not make Life appeared to me too commonplace an affair as regarded myself . ΙΟ Preface .
... mountains near , that my true compositions , the airy flights of my imagina- tion , were born and fostered . myself the heroine of my tales . I did not make Life appeared to me too commonplace an affair as regarded myself . ΙΟ Preface .
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... tion for my toils which I may never know , that I am wavering in my resolutions . Those are as fixed as fate , and my voyage is now only delayed until the weather shall permit my em- barkation . The winter has been dreadfully severe ...
... tion for my toils which I may never know , that I am wavering in my resolutions . Those are as fixed as fate , and my voyage is now only delayed until the weather shall permit my em- barkation . The winter has been dreadfully severe ...
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... tion , vast and irregular plains of ice , which seemed to have no end . Some of my com- rades groaned , and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts , when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention , and diverted ...
... tion , vast and irregular plains of ice , which seemed to have no end . Some of my com- rades groaned , and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts , when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention , and diverted ...
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