Mosses from an Old Manse, Էջ 2Wiley and Putnam, 1846 "Mosses from an Old Manse" is Nathaniel Hawthorne' s second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as " Young Goodman Brown, " " The Birthmark, " and " Rappaccini' s Daughter." Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess " the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorne' s writing-- this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy." |
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... kind of spiritual medium , seen through which , the edifice had not quite the aspect of belonging to the material world . Certainly , it had little in common with those ordinary abodes , which stand so imminent upon the road that every ...
... kind of spiritual medium , seen through which , the edifice had not quite the aspect of belonging to the material world . Certainly , it had little in common with those ordinary abodes , which stand so imminent upon the road that every ...
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... kind of shelter ; nowise comparable to the old parsonage , which had resources of its own , to beguile the week's imprisonment . The idea of sleep- ing on a couch of wet roses ! Happy the man who , in a rainy day , can betake himself to ...
... kind of shelter ; nowise comparable to the old parsonage , which had resources of its own , to beguile the week's imprisonment . The idea of sleep- ing on a couch of wet roses ! Happy the man who , in a rainy day , can betake himself to ...
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... kind of intelligible truth for all times ; whereas , most other works - being written by men who , in the very act , set themselves apart from their age - are likely to possess little signi- ficance when new , and none at all when old ...
... kind of intelligible truth for all times ; whereas , most other works - being written by men who , in the very act , set themselves apart from their age - are likely to possess little signi- ficance when new , and none at all when old ...
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... kind . For myself , the book will always retain one charm , as reminding me of the river , with its delightful solitudes , and of the avenue , the garden and the orchard , and especially the dear Old Manse , with the little study on its ...
... kind . For myself , the book will always retain one charm , as reminding me of the river , with its delightful solitudes , and of the avenue , the garden and the orchard , and especially the dear Old Manse , with the little study on its ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Էջ 74 - Ah, forsooth, and is it your worship indeed?' cried the good dame. 'Yea, truly is it, and in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown, the grandfather of the silly fellow that now is. But — would your worship believe it? — my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane — ' 'Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe said the...
Էջ 34 - Georgiana's lovers were wont to say that some fairy at her birth hour had laid her tiny hand upon the infant's cheek, and left this impress there in token of the magic endowments that were to give her such sway over all hearts.
Էջ 83 - Be it so if you will; but, alas! it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night of that fearful dream.
Էջ 76 - While he still gazed upward into the deep arch of the firmament and had lifted his hands to pray, a cloud, though no wind was stirring, hurried across the zenith and hid the brightening stars. The blue sky was still visible, ex"3 cept directly overhead, where this black mass of cloud was sweeping swiftly northward.
Էջ 82 - Far more than this. It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom, the deep mystery of sin, the fountain of all wicked arts, and which inexhaustibly supplies more evil impulses than human power — than my power at its utmost — can make manifest in deeds.
Էջ 83 - A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain.
Էջ 75 - ... discoursing so aptly that his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor than to be suggested by himself. As they went, he plucked a branch of maple to serve for a walking stick, and began to strip it of the twigs and little boughs, which were wet with evening dew. The moment his fingers touched them they became strangely withered and dried up as with a week's sunshine. Thus the pair proceeded, at a good free pace, until suddenly, in a gloomy hollow of the road, Goodman...
Էջ 111 - Throughout Giovanni's whole acquaintance with Beatrice, he had occasionally, as we have said, been haunted by dark surmises as to her character. 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;...
Էջ 38 - Aminadab!" shouted Aylmer, stamping violently on the floor. Forthwith there issued from an inner apartment a man of low stature, but bulky frame, with shaggy hair hanging about his visage, which was grimed with the vapors of the furnace. This personage had been Aylmer's...
Էջ 110 - Baglioni laid a small, exquisitely wrought silver vial on the table and withdrew, leaving what he had said to produce its effect upon the young man's mind. "We will thwart Rappaccini yet," thought he, chuckling to himself as he descended the stairs; "but, let us confess the truth of him, he is a wonderful man, — a wonderful man indeed; a vile empiric...