 | 1851 - 588 str.
...task. " I busied myself to think of a story, — a story to rival those which had excited us to tliis task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears...thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. If I did not accomplish these things,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 str.
...relinquished their uncongenial task. . I busied myself to think of a story — a story to rival those whicji had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaking thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 334 str.
...Preface to ' Frankenstein.' Boston : Sever, Francis & Co., 1869. I busied myself to think of a story — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. ... I thought and pondered — vainly. I felt that blank Its conoep- incapability of invention which... | |
 | Mrs. Julian Marshall - 1889 - 400 str.
...platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their ungrateful task. I busied myself to think of a story, — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One that would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror — one to make... | |
 | Max Rentsch - 1902 - 176 str.
...Einleitung vom Jahre 1831 über den Plan zu ihrem Romane: „I busied myself to think of a story. — a story to rival those which had excited us to this...the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart" '). Sie hat es aber in ihrem Werke den anderen Schriftstellern dieser Art nicht nur gleich gethan,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1903 - 370 str.
...were never brought to a conclusion ; whilst Mary, though she racked her brains to find a story "that would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror," could think of nothing suitable, and when asked every morning if she had found one, was obliged to... | |
 | Clara Helen Whitmore - 1910 - 336 str.
...introduction of the edition of 1839 that, before writing it, she was trying to think of a story, "one that would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature,...the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart." That she has done this the experience of every reader will prove. But the story has a greater hold... | |
 | 1919 - 882 str.
...which she set out — which was to write as horrible a tale as she had ever read. In her own words : "One which would speak to the mysterious fears of...the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." She also lived to know that she had added a new word to the English language. Frankenstein is now a... | |
 | 1919 - 870 str.
...which she set out — which wTas to write as horrible a tale as she had ever read. In her own words : "One which would speak to the mysterious fears of...blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.»» She also lived to know that she had added a new word tb the English language. Frankenstein is now a... | |
 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - 262 str.
...the spirit of willing surrender that a theme so impossible demands, it has still power momentarily " to • make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood • and to quicken the beatings of the heart." The record of the composition of Frankenstein has been so often... | |
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I busied myself to think of a story — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror... 
