ELEVATION in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.
2 Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.
3 The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
4 Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
5 My thoughts and every feeling of my soul have been drunk up by the interest for my guest which this tale and his own elevated and gentle manners have created.
6 But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.
7 For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
8 I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.