Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusSever, Francis, & Company, 1869 - 177 pages |
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... wind , and the rain it seemed to promise for the next day . We retired early to our apartments , but not to sleep ; at least I did not . I remained many hours at the window , watching the pallid lightning that played above Mont Blanc ...
... wind , and the rain it seemed to promise for the next day . We retired early to our apartments , but not to sleep ; at least I did not . I remained many hours at the window , watching the pallid lightning that played above Mont Blanc ...
Page 76
... hunger , thirst , and desire , we might be nearly free ; but now we are moved by every wind that blows , and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us . " We rest ; a dream has power to poison 76 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
... hunger , thirst , and desire , we might be nearly free ; but now we are moved by every wind that blows , and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us . " We rest ; a dream has power to poison 76 FRANKENSTEIN ; OR ,
Page 84
... wind entered it by innumerable chinks , I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain . " Here then I retreated , and lay down , happy to have found a shelter , however miserable , from the inclemency of the season , and still ...
... wind entered it by innumerable chinks , I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain . " Here then I retreated , and lay down , happy to have found a shelter , however miserable , from the inclemency of the season , and still ...
Page 90
... wind quickly dried the earth , and the season became far more pleasant than it had been . " My mode of life in my hovel was uniform . During the morn- ing I attended the motions of the cottagers ; and when they were dispersed in various ...
... wind quickly dried the earth , and the season became far more pleasant than it had been . " My mode of life in my hovel was uniform . During the morn- ing I attended the motions of the cottagers ; and when they were dispersed in various ...
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Page 35 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Page 1 - ... preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.
Page 114 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 50 - I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.
Page 35 - I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation ; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Page 104 - I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create.
Page 121 - Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.
Page 34 - IT was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Page 50 - ... its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support.