MY OWN in Classic Quotes

1  All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

2  Be assured that for my own sake, as well as yours, I will not rashly encounter danger.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3

3  In the university whither I was going I must form my own friends and be my own protector.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

4  From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

5  I was firmly convinced in my own mind that Justine, and indeed every human being, was guiltless of this murder.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

6  Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

7  When he had in some measure recovered, I removed him to my own cabin and attended on him as much as my duty would permit.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

8  For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

9  For my own part, I do not hesitate to say that, notwithstanding all the evidence produced against her, I believe and rely on her perfect innocence.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

10  I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2

11  I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1

12  Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

13  I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

14  Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

15  I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1

16  I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

17  The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2