Chapter 10

•  imperial Nature
• “these sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me to the greatest consolation I was capable of receiving”
• “they all gathered around me, and bade me at peace”
• “Where had they fled when the next morning I awoke?”
• “Still I would penetrate their misty veil, and seek them in their cloudy retreats”
• “It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy”
• “I determined to go without a guide (...) the presence of another would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene”
• “Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
• If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free
• “Nought may endure but mutability”
• “My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy”
• “I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach, and then close with him in mortal combat.”
• “Bespoke bitter anguish (...) disdain and malignity (...) its unearthly ugliness”
• “hatred had at first deprived me of utterance and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt”
• “Begone vile insect! or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! and, oh!
• “‘I expected this reception.’ said the daemon”
• “How dare you sport thus with life?”
• “if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends”
• “Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.”
• “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it”
• “I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee. I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me”
• “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”
• “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
• “Begone! I will not hear you.”
• we are enemies.
• “Yet it is in your power to recompense me and deliver them from an evil”
• human laws, as bloody as they are
• 'Thus I relive thee, my creator,' he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence
• “Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light! Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you!
• Begone! Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.
• “Listen to my tale (...) Hear my tale (...) he thus began his tale”
• determined at least to hear his tale. I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution”
• “For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”