Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.], Volume 1Lackington, Hughes, Harding, 1818 |
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... countenance is lighted up , as it were , with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled . But he is gene- rally melancholy and despairing ; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth , as if impatient of the weight of woes ...
... countenance is lighted up , as it were , with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled . But he is gene- rally melancholy and despairing ; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth , as if impatient of the weight of woes ...
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... countenance be- came expressive of a calm settled grief , that touched me to the heart . But he was silent , and presently retired to his cabin . Even broken in spirit as he is , no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of ...
... countenance be- came expressive of a calm settled grief , that touched me to the heart . But he was silent , and presently retired to his cabin . Even broken in spirit as he is , no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of ...
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... hitherto been re- markably secluded and domestic ; and this had given me invincible repug- nance to new countenances . I loved my brothers , Elizabeth , and Clerval ; these were " old familiar faces ; " but I THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 67.
... hitherto been re- markably secluded and domestic ; and this had given me invincible repug- nance to new countenances . I loved my brothers , Elizabeth , and Clerval ; these were " old familiar faces ; " but I THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 67.
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... countenance ; the teacher , therefore , did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine . Besides , I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy . It was very diffe- rent , when the masters of the science sought ...
... countenance ; the teacher , therefore , did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine . Besides , I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy . It was very diffe- rent , when the masters of the science sought ...
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... countenance . A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch . I had gazed on him while unfinished ; he was ugly then ; but when those mus- cles and joints were rendered capable of motion , it became a thing ...
... countenance . A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch . I had gazed on him while unfinished ; he was ugly then ; but when those mus- cles and joints were rendered capable of motion , it became a thing ...
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