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But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Moon, Clouds, Brightness
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.70

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Halloween, Moon, Midnight
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Heart, Moon, Light
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.141, Orchises Press

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