 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 pages
...spirit of the Alps, as if it were a compassionate as well as a natural parent: "Wandering spirits . . . allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life." But Frankenstein's belief in natural benevolence, like his earlier confidence in the benevolence of... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...blindness with respect to Satan, the exclusion of the other that this political blindness allows): I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance,...with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices of ice . . . He approached . . . [an] unearthly ugliness . . . almost too horrible for human eyes .... | |
 | Charles R. Lewis - 2000 - 166 pages
...of Mont Blanc produces a brief sense of euphoria: "My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed — 'Wandering...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life'" (95). At this moment the monster again appears, a "wandering spirit" indeed who moves at "superhuman... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 2001 - 228 pages
...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed — "Wandering...as your companion, away from the joys of life." As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman... | |
 | Orit Kamir - 2001 - 264 pages
...Victor has traveled from the Frankensteins' house in Belrive, he again glimpses the unwelcome presence: I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. ... I was troubled: a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me. (95) 16. In Genette's... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 2004 - 294 pages
...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed - 'Wandering...as your companion, away from the joys of life.' As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman... | |
 | Lucie Armitt - 2005 - 244 pages
...of the natural landscape, when suddenly that power of the gaze is infiltrated by this 'other': ... I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance,...superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed... | |
 | Tina Heesel - 2007 - 56 pages
...Alpine valleys. He climbed a mountain and the sorrow was gone for a moment. Full of joy Victor screamed "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life" (MS, 101). In the same second he saw a man coming towards him with superhuman speed. Victor was full... | |
 | Sara Emilie Guyer - 2007 - 392 pages
...calls upon the dead and presents them with an alternative — give me happiness or death. He exclaims: "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life" (76). The apostrophe sets out with admitted uncertainty about the place and the nature of its object.... | |
 | 354 pages
...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed - 'Wandering...take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.1 As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me... | |
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Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life. 
