MY FATHER in Classic Quotes

1  I obtained from my father a respite of some weeks.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

2  One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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3  A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind, and bounding with joy, I communicated my discovery to my father.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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4  This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

5  Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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6  My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

7  In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

8  There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

9  My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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10  Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

11  But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

12  I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

13  I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

14  I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you."

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

15  I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

16  These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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17  During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1