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Mary Shelley

The world is the nurse of all we know This world the mother of all we feel And the coming...

[IMITATING MONKEY] The world is the nurse of all we know This world the mother of all we feel And the coming of death is a fearful blow To the brain unencompassed
with nerves of steel When all we know or feel or see Shall pass like an unreal mystery!

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[IMITATING MONKEY]
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The world is the nurse of all we know
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This world the mother of all we feel
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And the coming of death is a fearful blow
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To the brain unencompassed with nerves of steel
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When all we know or feel or see
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Shall pass like an unreal mystery!
Duration
26 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
01:15:51
Uploaded
Jun 30, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
Production
HanWay Films,Gidden Media,Parallel Films,BFI,Ralfish Films,Bac Cinema,Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland,Film Fund Luxembourg,Head Gear Films,Metrol Technology

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Movie Summary

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
Applying the principle of galvanism to human corpses. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Applying the principle of galvanism to human corpses.
She walks in beauty like the night - Mary Shelley 00:11
She walks in beauty like the night
All that's best of dark and bright meet in the aspect of her eyes - Mary Shelley 00:10
All that's best of dark and bright meet in the aspect o...
It's an unspeakable cruelty for a woman to lose a child. - Mary Shelley 00:04
It's an unspeakable cruelty for a woman to lose a child...
I've seen it more times than I care to remember. - Mary Shelley 00:08
I've seen it more times than I care to remember.
It's called 'The Nightmare... - Mary Shelley 00:04
It's called 'The Nightmare...
The Angel fallen from grace because of insatiable lust. - Mary Shelley 00:06
The Angel fallen from grace because of insatiable lust.
She tried to kill herself with an overdose of laudanum... - Mary Shelley 00:04
She tried to kill herself with an overdose of laudanum...
I've never reconciled how someone as strong as my mother... - Mary Shelley 00:05
I've never reconciled how someone as strong as my mothe...
Love will find its way through paths... - Mary Shelley 00:04
Love will find its way through paths...
...where wolves would fear to prey. - Mary Shelley 00:04
...where wolves would fear to prey.
MARY: But if she wasn't impervious to the pain of heartbreak... - Mary Shelley 00:04
MARY: But if she wasn't impervious to the pain of heart...
The great art of life is sensation. - Mary Shelley 00:05
The great art of life is sensation.
To feel that you exist, even in pain. - Mary Shelley 00:04
To feel that you exist, even in pain.
After all, what is life if it does not have love? - Mary Shelley 00:06
After all, what is life if it does not have love?
...should be intelligent enough to understand what I'm saying but... - Mary Shelley 00:05
...should be intelligent enough to understand what I'm ...
...not intelligent enough to be able to form ideas or opinions of her own. - Mary Shelley 00:06
...not intelligent enough to be able to form ideas or opinio...
You, Miss Godwin, have the chance to prove me wrong. - Mary Shelley 00:04
You, Miss Godwin, have the chance to prove me wrong.
[PIANO CRASH] - Mary Shelley 00:07
[PIANO CRASH]
[REVELRY] - Mary Shelley 00:07
[REVELRY]