Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus, Volumes 1-2Whittaker, 1823 |
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... hands . These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation . Two other friends ( a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce ) and myself agreed to write ...
... hands . These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation . Two other friends ( a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce ) and myself agreed to write ...
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... hand . We learned Latin and English , that we might read the writings in those languages ; and so far from study being made odious to us through punishment , we loved appli- cation , and our amusements would have been the labours of ...
... hand . We learned Latin and English , that we might read the writings in those languages ; and so far from study being made odious to us through punishment , we loved appli- cation , and our amusements would have been the labours of ...
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... and benignity of this admira- ble woman did not desert her . joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself : " My children , " she said , " my firmest hopes of future happiness were She e e 2- ed of ces he her oks the 62 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
... and benignity of this admira- ble woman did not desert her . joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself : " My children , " she said , " my firmest hopes of future happiness were She e e 2- ed of ces he her oks the 62 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
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... hand rent away some dear connexion ; and why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt , and must feel ? The time at length arrives , when grief is rather an indulgence than a ne- cessity ; and the smile that plays upon the lips ...
... hand rent away some dear connexion ; and why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt , and must feel ? The time at length arrives , when grief is rather an indulgence than a ne- cessity ; and the smile that plays upon the lips ...
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... metals cannot be transmuted , and that the elixir of life is a chi- mera . But these philosophers , whose hands seem only made to dabble in VOL . I. E dirt , and their eyes to pore over the microscope THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 73.
... metals cannot be transmuted , and that the elixir of life is a chi- mera . But these philosophers , whose hands seem only made to dabble in VOL . I. E dirt , and their eyes to pore over the microscope THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 73.
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