HEAVENS in Classic Quotes

1  Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

2  That hour passed, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

3  The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

4  The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  I am not mad," I cried energetically; "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

7  These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 1

8  It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

9  It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

10  The old man, leaning on his son, walked each day at noon, when it did not rain, as I found it was called when the heavens poured forth its waters.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

11  The sun sank lower in the heavens; we passed the river Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the higher and the glens of the lower hills.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

12  I looked on the heavens, which were covered by clouds that flew before the wind, only to be replaced by others; I looked upon the sea; it was to be my grave.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

13  Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

14  The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

15  As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

16  The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

17  It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2