HIMSELF in Classic Quotes

1  Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

2  Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery but that he interests himself deeply in the projects of others.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

3  Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

4  But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2

5  Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

6  He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he bestowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solicited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2