MY FATHER in Classic Quotes

1  My father's age rendered him extremely averse to delay.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

2  My father tried to awaken in me the feelings of affection.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21

3  My father's health was deeply shaken by the horror of the recent events.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

4  My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

5  My father wished her not to go but said that he left it to her own judgment and feelings to decide.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

6  My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

7  My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid society and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

8  My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

9  My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

10  My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my silence by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

11  My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

12  My father's care and attentions were indefatigable, but he did not know the origin of my sufferings and sought erroneous methods to remedy the incurable ill.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

13  My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21

14  My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

15  My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

16  My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as the offspring of delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had presented itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

17  My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21