Mosses from an Old Manse, Հատոր 1Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882 - 559 էջ |
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... rich clouds float through the unruffled bosom of the stream like heavenly thoughts through a peaceful heart . We will not , then , malign our river as gross and impure while it can glorify itself with so adequate a picture of the heaven ...
... rich clouds float through the unruffled bosom of the stream like heavenly thoughts through a peaceful heart . We will not , then , malign our river as gross and impure while it can glorify itself with so adequate a picture of the heaven ...
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... rich scenery of my companion's inner world ; only the vegetation along its banks should then have had an Oriental character . Gentle and unobtrusive as the river is , yet the tran- quil woods seem hardly satisfied to allow it passage ...
... rich scenery of my companion's inner world ; only the vegetation along its banks should then have had an Oriental character . Gentle and unobtrusive as the river is , yet the tran- quil woods seem hardly satisfied to allow it passage ...
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... rich medicinal virtues , from the dark bosom of the earth . Here , too , at an earlier pe- riod , he had studied the wonders of the human frame , and attempted to fathom the very process by which Nature assimilates all her precious ...
... rich medicinal virtues , from the dark bosom of the earth . Here , too , at an earlier pe- riod , he had studied the wonders of the human frame , and attempted to fathom the very process by which Nature assimilates all her precious ...
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... they fell from the ceiling to the floor , their rich and ponderous folds , concealing all angles and straight lines , appeared to shut in the scene from infinite space . For aught Georgiana knew , it THE BIRTHMARK . 55.
... they fell from the ceiling to the floor , their rich and ponderous folds , concealing all angles and straight lines , appeared to shut in the scene from infinite space . For aught Georgiana knew , it THE BIRTHMARK . 55.
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... rich with 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 o the composite man THE BIRTHMARK . 61.
... rich with 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 o the composite man THE BIRTHMARK . 61.
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Adam Adam and Eve amid Aminadab Annie appeared Aylmer Beatrice beautiful behold beneath blaze bosom breast breath Bullfrog butterfly Celestial character cloud companion cried dark death deep Dorcas dream earth earthly Elliston evil exclaimed eyes face faith fancy father Feathertop felt figure 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 Manse mind Monsieur du Miroir moral Mother Rigby mountain mystery nature never observed Old Manse once Owen Warland passed perhaps pipe poor Rappaccini 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 48 - Then why did you take me from my mother's side? You cannot love what shocks you!" To explain this conversation it must be mentioned that in the centre of Georgiana's left cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face. In the usual state of her complexion — a healthy though delicate bloom — the mark wore a tint of deeper crimson, which imperfectly defined its shape amid the surrounding rosiness. When she blushed it gradually became more...
Էջ 98 - 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 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.
Էջ 22 - Throughout the summer, there were cherries and currants ; and then came Autumn, with his immense burden of apples, dropping them continually. from his overladen shoulders as he trudged along. In the stillest afternoon, if I listened, the thump of a great apple was audible, falling without a breath of wind, from the mere necessity of perfect ripeness.
Էջ 90 - Indian behind every tree,' said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him as he added, 'What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow...
Էջ 105 - ... appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown. He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema. Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window. "What God doth the wizard pray to?
Էջ 125 - For some purpose or other, this man of science is making a study of you. I know that look of his! It is the same that coldly illuminates his face as he bends over a bird, a mouse, or a butterfly, which, in pursuance of some experiment, he has killed by the perfume of a flower; a look as deep as Nature itself, but without Nature's warmth of love. Signor Giovanni, I will stake my life upon it, you are the subject of one of Rappaccini's experiments!" "Will you make a fool of me?" cried Giovanni passionately....
Էջ 49 - But if any shifting emotion caused her to turn pale, there was the mark again, a crimson stain upon the snow, in what Aylmer sometimes deemed an almost fearful distinctness. Its shape bore not a little similarity to the human hand, though of the smallest pygmy size.
Էջ 90 - His head being turned back, he passed a crook of the road, and. looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree. He arose at Goodman Brown's approach and walked onward side by side with him. " You are late, Goodman Brown,
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 death-like paleness, amid which the crimson hand was brought strongly out, like a bas-relief of ruby on the whitest marble.