 I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3791818Full view - About this book
 | Miranda Seymour - 2000 - 722 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel. 33 Waking, Frankenstein... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 2002 - 332 pages
...monster. His fiancée Elizabeth appears to him "in the bloom of health. . . . Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel."7 The creation... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 2002 - 360 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighied and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...hue of death; her features appeared to change, and l thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw... | |
 | Andrew Bennett, Clare Constant - 2003 - 164 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, 20 walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
 | Gavriel Reisner - 2003 - 286 pages
...indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health. ... I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel. (5:58) We... | |
 | Peter Ellison - 2003 - 124 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
 | François Flahault - 2003 - 216 pages
...dream which, in fact, turns into a nightmare: at first Victor embraces his lovely fiancee, Elisabeth: 'but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel'. In the dream... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 2004 - 294 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
 | Garry Gillard - 2003 - 156 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
 | Christopher Booker - 2004 - 748 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingoldstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.' He wakes... | |
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