The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mosses from an old manse. [c1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1882 |
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... long a writer of idle stories , and ventured to hope that wisdom would descend upon me with the falling leaves of the avenue , and that I should light upon an intellectual treasure in the Old Manse well worth 12 MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
... long a writer of idle stories , and ventured to hope that wisdom would descend upon me with the falling leaves of the avenue , and that I should light upon an intellectual treasure in the Old Manse well worth 12 MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
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... hope of benefiting his successors , an end so seldom achieved by more am- bitious efforts . But the old minister , before reaching his patriarchal age of ninety , ate the apples from this orchard during many years , and added silver and ...
... hope of benefiting his successors , an end so seldom achieved by more am- bitious efforts . But the old minister , before reaching his patriarchal age of ninety , ate the apples from this orchard during many years , and added silver and ...
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... hope of either mounting to the better world on a Gothic stair- case of ancient folios or of flying thither on the wings of a modern tract . Nothing , strange to say , retained any sap except what had been written for the passing day and ...
... hope of either mounting to the better world on a Gothic stair- case of ancient folios or of flying thither on the wings of a modern tract . Nothing , strange to say , retained any sap except what had been written for the passing day and ...
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... hideous in- cantations than any known to English witchcraft . " But where is Faith ? " thought Goodman Brown ; and , as hope came into his heart , he trembled . Another verse of the hymn arose , a slow and YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN . 101.
... hideous in- cantations than any known to English witchcraft . " But where is Faith ? " thought Goodman Brown ; and , as hope came into his heart , he trembled . Another verse of the hymn arose , a slow and YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN . 101.
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... hope ; yet hope and dread kept a con- tinual warfare in his breast , alternately vanquishing one another and starting up afresh to renew the con- test . Blessed are all simple emotions , be they dark or bright ! It is the lurid ...
... hope ; yet hope and dread kept a con- tinual warfare in his breast , alternately vanquishing one another and starting up afresh to renew the con- test . Blessed are all simple emotions , be they dark or bright ! It is the lurid ...
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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.