[오늘의 한문장] Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. - P45

Natural philosophy is the gen...

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. - P39

a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; - P40

My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my most undivided attention: wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! - P40

This last stroke completed the overthrow of Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, who had so long reigned the lords of my imagination. - P41

William, the youngest of our family, was yet an infant, and the most beautiful little fellow in the world; his lively blue eyes, dimpled cheeks, and endearing manners, inspired the tenderest affection. - P41

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. - P45

I was required to exchange ch...

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. - P30

Natural philosophy* is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. - P22

It may appear very strange, that a disciple of Albertus Magnus should arise in the eighteenth century; but our familywas not scientifical, and I had not attended any of the lectures given at the schools of Geneva.
My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher‘s stone and the elixir of life.
But the latter obtained my most undivided attention: wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death! - P23

[오늘의 한문장] Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. - P39

Such a man has a double exist...

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. - P16

From this time Elizabeth Lavenza became my playfellow,
and, as we grew older, my friend.
She was docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect.
Although she was lively and animated, her feelings were strong and deep, and her disposition uncommonly affectionate.
No one could better enjoy liberty, yet no one could submit with more grace than she did to constraint and caprice.
Her imagination was luxuriant, yet her capability of application was great.
Her person was the image of her mind; her hazel eyes, although as lively as a bird‘s, possessed an attractive softness.
Her figure was light and airy; and, though capable of enduring great fatigue, she appeared the most fragile creature in the world.
While I admired her understanding and fancy, I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal; and I never saw so much grace both of person and mind united to so little pretension. - P21

Every one adored Elizabeth.
If the servants had any request to make, it was always through her intercession.
We were strangers to any species of disunion and dispute; for although there was a great dissimilitude in our characters, there was an harmony in that very dissimilitude. I was more calm and philosophical than my companion; yet my temper was not so yielding.
My application was of longer endurance; but it was not so severe whilst it endured.
I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets.
The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. - P21