The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mosses from an old manse. [c1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1882 |
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... 430 PASSAGES FROM A RELINQUISHED WORK 457 SKETCHES FROM MEMORY 476 THE OLD APPLE DEALER 495 THE ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL 504 A VIRTUOSO's COLLECTION 537 • INTRODUCTORY NOTE . MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . AFTER Prof. W. McColly.
... 430 PASSAGES FROM A RELINQUISHED WORK 457 SKETCHES FROM MEMORY 476 THE OLD APPLE DEALER 495 THE ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL 504 A VIRTUOSO's COLLECTION 537 • INTRODUCTORY NOTE . MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . AFTER Prof. W. McColly.
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... good and beautiful results the fragrance of celestial flowers to the daily life of others . The reader must not , from any testimony of mine , contract a dislike towards our slumberous stream . In the THE OLD MANSE . 15.
... good and beautiful results the fragrance of celestial flowers to the daily life of others . The reader must not , from any testimony of mine , contract a dislike towards our slumberous stream . In the THE OLD MANSE . 15.
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... beautiful and varied forms . They pre- sented an endless diversity of urns and vases , shal- low or deep , scalloped or plain , moulded in patterns which a sculptor would do well to copy , since Art has never invented anything more ...
... beautiful and varied forms . They pre- sented an endless diversity of urns and vases , shal- low or deep , scalloped or plain , moulded in patterns which a sculptor would do well to copy , since Art has never invented anything more ...
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... beautiful was gratified by my toil in the kitchen garden . There was a hearty enjoyment , likewise , in observing the growth of the crook - necked winter squashes , from the first little bulb , with the withered blossom adhering to it ...
... beautiful was gratified by my toil in the kitchen garden . There was a hearty enjoyment , likewise , in observing the growth of the crook - necked winter squashes , from the first little bulb , with the withered blossom adhering to it ...
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... beautiful scene without destroying its poetry . Our fire , red gleaming among the trees , and we beside it , busied with culinary rites and spread- ing out our meal on a mossgrown log , all seemed in unison with the river gliding by and ...
... beautiful scene without destroying its poetry . Our fire , red gleaming among the trees , and we beside it , busied with culinary rites and spread- ing out our meal on a mossgrown log , all seemed in unison with the river gliding by and ...
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Adam Adam and Eve amid Aminadab Annie appeared Aylmer Beatrice beautiful behold beneath blaze bosom breath Bullfrog Celestial character cloud companion countenance cried dark death deep Dorcas dream earth earthly Elliston evil exclaimed eyes face faith fancy father Feathertop felt figure finger fire flame flowers forest garden gaze Georgiana Giovanni glance gleam glow Goodman Brown guest Hall of Fantasy hand head heart heaven human idea imagination lady leaves light living looked looking-glass Lord Byron man's mankind mind Monsieur du Miroir moral Mother Rigby mountain mystery nature never observed Old Manse once Owen Warland passed perhaps pipe poor Rappaccini RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER replied Reuben rich Roderick scarecrow seemed shadow shrub smile soul spirit stood strange sunshine thee thing thou thought tion trees truth Vanity Fair virtuoso voice wandering whole window withered woman words wrought young young Goodman Brown youth
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Էջ 99 - Ha! ha! ha!" roared Goodman Brown when the wind laughed at him. "Let us hear which will laugh loudest. Think not to frighten me with your deviltry. Come witch, come wizard, come Indian powwow, come devil himself, and here comes Goodman Brown. You may as well fear him as he fear you.
Էջ 98 - The next moment, so indistinct were the sounds, he doubted whether he had heard aught but the murmur of the old forest, whispering without a wind. Then came a stronger swell of those familiar tones, heard daily in the sunshine at Salem village, but never until now from a cloud of night. There...
Էջ 115 - ... professor of medicine in the university, a physician of eminent repute, to whom Giovanni had brought a letter of introduction. The professor was an elderly personage, apparently of genial nature, and habits that might almost be called jovial. He kept the young man to dinner, and made...
Էջ 89 - ... twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married?" "Then God bless you!" said Faith, with the pink ribbons; "and may you find all well when you come back.
Էջ 147 - ... among the flowers of Eden. Farewell, Giovanni! Thy words of hatred are like lead within my heart, but they too will fall away as I ascend. Oh, was there not from the first more poison in thy nature than in mine?
Էջ 139 - Yet, so thoroughly had she made herself felt by him as a simple, natural, most affectionate and guileless creature, that the image now held up by Professor Baglioni, looked as strange and incredible, as if it were not in accordance with his own original conception. True, there were ugly recollections connected with his first glimpses of the beautiful girl; he could not quite forget the bouquet that withered in her grasp, and the insect that perished amid the sunny air, by no ostensible agency save...
Էջ 142 - There was an awful doom," she continued, "the effect of my father's fatal love of science, which estranged me from all society of my kind.
Էջ 62 - ... achievements that had won renown for its author, was yet as melancholy a record as ever mortal hand had penned. It was the sad confession and continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man, the spirit burdened with clay and working in matter, and of the despair that assails the higher nature at finding itself so miserably thwarted by the earthly part. Perhaps every man of genius in whatever sphere might recognize the image of his own experience in Aylmer's journal.
Էջ 95 - Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe," said the shape of old Goodman Brown. "Ah, your worship knows the recipe," cried the old lady, cackling aloud. "So, as I was saying, being all ready for the meeting, and no horse to ride on, I made up my mind to foot it; for they tell me there is a nice young man to be taken into communion tonight. But now your good worship will lend me your arm, and we shall be there in a twinkling." "That can hardly be," answered her friend. "I may not spare...
Էջ 50 - It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain.