Letter 2: Walton Quotes Flashcards
“I have no friend” / “when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy”
“encompassed as I am by frost and snow!”
“I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean”
“A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage”
“He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command” (Noble Savage, about his lieutenant)
“I am going to unexplored regions” / “but I shall kill no albatross” / “passionate enthusiasm” / “the dangerous mysteries of ocean”.
“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand”
“Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again”
“even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore”
