The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Հատոր 2Houghton Mifflin, 1882 |
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... seemed shadowy with solemn thoughts as well as with rustling leaves . I took shame to myself for hav ing been so long a writer of idle stories , and ventured to hope that wisdom would descend upon me with the falling leaves of the ...
... seemed shadowy with solemn thoughts as well as with rustling leaves . I took shame to myself for hav ing been so long a writer of idle stories , and ventured to hope that wisdom would descend upon me with the falling leaves of the ...
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... seemed murderous to slay a brother man . This one circumstance has borne more fruit for me than all that history tells us of the fight . Many strangers come in the summer time to view the battle - ground . For my own part , I have never ...
... seemed murderous to slay a brother man . This one circumstance has borne more fruit for me than all that history tells us of the fight . Many strangers come in the summer time to view the battle - ground . For my own part , I have never ...
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... seemed to have his abiding- place and to be plotting still direr inclemencies . Nature has no kindness , no hospitality , during a rain . In the fiercest heat of sunny days she retains a secret mercy , and welcomes the wayfarer to shady ...
... seemed to have his abiding- place and to be plotting still direr inclemencies . Nature has no kindness , no hospitality , during a rain . In the fiercest heat of sunny days she retains a secret mercy , and welcomes the wayfarer to shady ...
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... seemed to me tha all the arti- fice and conventionalism of life was but an impalpable thinness upon its surface , and that the depth below was none the worse for it . Once , as we turned our boat to the bank , there was a cloud , in the ...
... seemed to me tha all the arti- fice and conventionalism of life was but an impalpable thinness upon its surface , and that the depth below was none the worse for it . Once , as we turned our boat to the bank , there was a cloud , in the ...
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... to their pomp , and typify the character of the delicious time each within itself . The brilliant cardinal flower has never seemed gay to me . - Still later in the season Nature's tenderness waxes stronger THE OLD MANSE . 37.
... to their pomp , and typify the character of the delicious time each within itself . The brilliant cardinal flower has never seemed gay to me . - Still later in the season Nature's tenderness waxes stronger THE OLD MANSE . 37.
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Էջ 50 - 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. The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. In this manner, selecting it as the symbol of his wife's liability to sin,...
Էջ 69 - Alas! it was too true! The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame, As the last crimson tint of the birthmark— that sole token of human imperfection -faded from her cheek, the parting breath of the now perfect woman passed into the atmosphere, and her soul, lingering a moment near her husband, took its heavenward flight.
Էջ 91 - Friend,' said the other, exchanging his slow pace for a full stop, 'having kept covenant by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return whence I came. I have scruples, touching the matter thou wot'st of.
Էջ 117 - Rappaccini, in which the latter was generally thought to have gained the advantage. If the reader be inclined to judge for himself, we refer him to certain black-letter tracts on both sides, preserved in the medical department of the University of Padua. "I know not, most learned professor...
Էջ 61 - All these antique naturalists stood in advance of their centuries, yet were imbued with some of their credulity, and therefore were believed, and perhaps imagined themselves to have acquired from the investigation of Nature a power above Nature, and from physics a sway over the spiritual world. Hardly less curious and imaginative were the early volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Society, in which the members, knowing little of the limits of natural possibility, were continually recording wonders...
Էջ 455 - And, unless they hit upon some method of purifying that foul cavern, forth from it will reissue all the shapes of wrong and misery — the same old shapes or worse ones — which they have taken such a vast deal of trouble to consume to ashes.
Էջ 51 - Georgiana soon learned to shudder at his gaze. It needed but a glance with the peculiar expression that his face often wore to change the roses of her cheek into a deathlike paleness, amid which the crimson hand was brought strongly out, like a bas-relief of ruby on the whitest marble.
Էջ 141 - ... with curious eye a spider that was busily at work hanging its web from the antique cornice of the apartment, crossing and recrossing the artful system of interwoven lines — as vigorous and active a spider as ever dangled from an old ceiling. Giovanni bent towards the insect, and emitted a deep, long breath. The spider suddenly ceased its toil; the web vibrated with a tremor originating in the body of the small artisan.
Էջ 50 - Envy's self could have found aught else to sneer at, — he might have felt his affection heightened by the prettiness of this mimic hand, now vaguely portrayed, now lost, now stealing forth again and glimmering to and fro with every pulse of emotion that throbbed within her heart; but, seeing her otherwise so perfect, he found this one defect grow more and more intolerable with every moment of their united lives.
Էջ 65 - ... nature than he had dreamed of. She felt how much more precious was such a sentiment than that meaner kind which would have borne with the imperfection for her sake, and have been guilty of treason to holy love by degrading its perfect idea to the level of the actual; and with her whole spirit she prayed that, for a single moment, she might satisfy his highest and deepest conception.