SUMMER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
2 The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.
3 The present season was indeed divine; the flowers of spring bloomed in the hedges, while those of summer were already in bud.
4 But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.
5 Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
6 Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.
7 We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.