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" 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... "
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus - Page 34
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 177 pages
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Das Übersinnliche im englischen Roman: (Von Horace Walpole bis Walter Scott)

Wilhelm Ad Paterna - English fiction - 1915 - 154 pages
...doch zu etwas, das imstande, die Wirkung seiner großen Entdeckung in sich -aufzunehmen (5t) f.): "1t was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the...my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agouy, l collected the Instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the...
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Shelleys geistesgeschichtliche bedeutung

Theodor Spira - 1928 - 280 pages
....«') Melmoth, der Verführer, erscheint und vereinigt sich mit ihr. Ebenso verfährt Mary Shelley: »It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils« (Frankenstein hat einen Dämon gesdiaffen). »It was already one in the morning/ the rain tappered...
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British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914

Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 332 pages
...had once intended to begin the story in medias res, with the words, spoken by Victor Frankenstein, "It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils." Instead, urged by Shelley, she extended the narrative and began the story from the outside and the...
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British Literary Manuscripts: From 1800 to 1914

Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 332 pages
...had once intended to begin the story in medias res, with the words, spoken by Victor Frankenstein, “It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. “ Instead, urged by Shelley, she extended the narrative and began the story from the outside and...
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The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel

George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 368 pages
...laboratory and secretly, guiltily, works at creating human life, only to find that he has made a monster. It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld...being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. . . . The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the...
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Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...of wholesome sensation and regulated ambition.] But I believed that exercise and amusement would 35 soon drive away such symptoms; and I promised myself...my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to 5 agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Daedalian Mythmaker: The Daedalian Mythmaker

Art - 328 pages
...Believing as he did in his "unhallowed arts," Victor Frankenstein dared beyond Renaissance anatomists: "I collected the instruments of life around me, that...being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." The humanoid was assembled with parts coming from charnel houses, slaughter pens, and dissection rooms....
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Gothic (Re)Visions: Writing Women as Readers

Susan Wolstenholme - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...woman begins to plan her text just after her nightmare vision of the Monster), chapter 5 of the novel ("It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils....") does exactly the reverse. Frankenstein has just finished his creation; then he contemplates ("beholds")...
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Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function

Stanley Finger - Brain - 2001 - 484 pages
...together, and endued with vital warmth. Chapter 5 of the text itself opened with the following paragraph: It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld...instruments of life around me, that I might infuse the spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning;...
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New Oxford English, Volume 2

Anne Powling, John O'Connor, Geoff Barton - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 166 pages
...See Module 3. Noun The word in a sentence which labels a person, place, thing, feeling, or idea, eg It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. Nouns can be singular, eg The snake raises its head. Or they can be plural, eg The snakes raise their...
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