All 5 Uses of
reverie
in
Frankenstein
- I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.†
Chpt 20 *
- This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me forever, I shudder to reflect on it.†
Chpt 20
- But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.†
Chpt 22
- This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.†
Chpt 24
- Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(reverie) the state of daydreaming