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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 A mist covered both that and the surrounding mountains.
2 The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
3 I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.
4 Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily.
5 The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
6 The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
7 I was troubled; a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me, but I was quickly restored by the cold gale of the mountains.
8 I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, 'the palaces of nature,' were not changed.
9 It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
10 The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends.
11 The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.
12 At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify.
13 I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhappy to enjoy the gentle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun setting behind the stupendous mountains of Jura.
14 Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains, the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees formed a scene of singular beauty.
15 Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
16 The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
17 I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
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