Citations:authors


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.
 * I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.
 * Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.