“It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man—that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed.” MindHumanityHopeImaginationThought Book:The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.” LoveLifeDeathHopeRomanticSublimeRomanticism Book:Valperga Source: Valperga
“At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!" '"Great God!" exclaimed the old man, "who are you?" 'At that instant the cottage door opened...” HopeSadDespairTragedyTensionIsolationTragicFrankensteinFrankenstein S Monster Book:Frankenstein Source: Frankenstein
“Youth, elastic and bright, disdains to be compelled. When conquered, from its very chains it forges implements for freedom; it alights from one baffled flight, only again to soar on untired wing towards some other aim. Previous defeat is made the bridge to pass the tide to another shore; and, if that break down, its fragments become stepping stones. It will feed upon despair, and call it a medicine which is to renovate its dying hopes.” HopeFreedomYouthDespair Book:The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance