Letter 4: Walton Quotes Flashcards
“we were nearly surrounded by ice” / “very thick fog” / “mist cleared away”
“a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention” / “the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs”
“This appearance excited our unqualified wonder”
“He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European”.
“I never saw a man in so wretched a condition” / “we restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy” / “benevolently restored me to life”
“I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding”
“I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness”
“his whole countenance is lighted up” / “with a beam of benevolence and sweetness”
“But he is generally melancholy and despairing” / “sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him”
“the demon, as he called him” / “To seek one who fled from me”
“From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger”
“I begin to love him as a brother; and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion” / “he must have been a noble creature”
“yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart”
“How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery, without feeling the most poignant grief?”
“He is gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated; and when he speaks,” / “they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence” (THE CREATURE TOO, DOPPELGANGER/IRONY)
“the burning ardour of my soul”
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire”. (CONQUERING).
“Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drank also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me -
let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”
“he began to despise himself for being the slave of passion” - as someone who wanted to pioneer the Enlightenment
“I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes”
“my fate is nearly fulfilled”
“You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did” / “may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been”
“I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am”
“he may suffer such 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” / “divine wanderer”
“that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew”
“but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions”
“nothing can alter my destiny” / “how irrevocably it is determined”
“I see his thin hand raised in animation”
