SICKNESS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.
2 As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
3 This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
4 But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
5 But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
6 I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
7 The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.