Frankenstein Volume 1. pp 15-50

Chapter 2 - It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. .... I have described myself as always having been embued with a fervent longing to...

Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.

Preface - I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

Chapter 16 The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, ...

Preface I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may .... I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties.

Chapter 12 I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that ...

Preface These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven. I also became a poet, and for one ...

Preface ... that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate and my spirits are often depressed.

Chapter 3 On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her. She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself:-- "My children," she said, ...

Preface This circumstance, added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him. A youth passed in solitude, my best years ...

Preface I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my ...

Preface Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms. My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and ...

Preface Margaret, if you had seen the man who thus capitulated for his safety, your surprise would have been boundless. His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body ...

Preface Frankenstein ..... Such words, you may imagine, strongly excited my curiosity; but the paroxysm of grief that had seized the stranger overcame his weakened ...

Preface if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined ." ...

Chapter 1 He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them. He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him ...

Chapter 1 She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. Several months passed in this ...

Chapter 1 She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.

Chapter 1 My mother's tender caresses, and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while ... Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.