FANCY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 He was a boy of singular talent and fancy.
2 I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.
3 Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
4 I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.
5 After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured up by my fancy.
6 When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.
7 Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
8 The resources of his mind on this occasion were truly astonishing: his conversation was full of imagination; and very often, in imitation of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion.
9 Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.
10 I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.