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  • ardent as I then was

    An explicit linkage of Walton and Victor through this echoed word first encountered
    in Walton's initial letter (I:L1:2) and strongly emphasized in the first two paragraphs
    of the present chapter (see I:3:1 and I:3:2).

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  • those shores which I so ardently desire to attain

    The shores to which Walton refers are those of Siberia and Alaska (also at this point
    a Russian dominion) fronting on the Bering Straits. Once again, his innocent choice
    of language links his present and past states of enthusiasm (see I:L1:2, I:L2:2) and
    prepares us for similar language surrounding Victor Frankenstein's scientific pursuits
    (I:2:7, I:3:1).

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  • 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 174 His zeal for Episcopacy..was now more ardent than
    ever.

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  • 1742 Young Nt. Th. viii. 721 Pray'r ardent opens Heav'n.

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  • 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxii. 196 He finds an ardent desire to speak.

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  • 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 1 Their grete strength and ryght ardaunt courage.

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  • c. 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. xii. 106 The most ardaunt loue of hys wiif.

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  • 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-Bk. , Ardent , said of a vessel when she gripes or comes
    to the wind quickly.

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  • 1848 Mariotti Italy II. i. 20 Many an ardent patriot.

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  • 1777 Watson Philip II (1793) II. xiv. 221 Ardent to behold him, after an absence of
    several years.
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