For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.


Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (ed. 1869)

Mary Shelley Quotes

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant ...

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant ...

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant ...

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant ...