... what singular fragrance is this in your apartment? Is it the perfume of your gloves? It is faint, but delicious; and yet, after all, by no means agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower;... Mosses from an old manse - Pagina 108door Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1894 - 792 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It ia like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." "Nor are there any,"...had turned pale as the professor spoke ; " nor, I tli ink, is there any fragrance except in your worship's imagination. Odors, being a sort of element... | |
| 1844 - 638 pagina’s
...it long, raethinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower — but I see no flowera in the chamber." " Nor are there any," replied Giovanni,...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume — the bare idea of it — mar easily be mistaken for a present reality." " Aye ; but my sober... | |
| 1844 - 648 pagina’s
...Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower — but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there any," replied Gioranni, who had turned pale as the Professor spoke ; " nor, I think, is there any fragrance, except... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846 - 222 pagina’s
...Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower — but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume — the bare idea of it — may easily be mistaken for a present reality." " Aye ; but my sober... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 300 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there...think, is there any fragrance except in your worship's imaginanon. Odors, being a son of element combined of the sensual and the spiritual, are apt to deceive... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 580 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume, the bare idea of it, may easily be mistaken for a present reality." "Ay ; but my sober imagination... | |
| 1882 - 580 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume, the bare idea of it, may easily be mistaken for a present reality." " Ay ; but my sober imagination... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 574 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." " Nor are there...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume, the bare idea of it, may easily be mistaken for a present reality." " Ay ; but my sober imagination... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne - 1882 - 574 pagina’s
...agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower ; but I see no flowers in the chamber." "Nor are there any," replied Giovanni, who had turned pa)e as the professor spoke ; " nor, I think, is there any fragrance except in your worship's imagination.... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 976 pagina’s
..."It is like the breath of a flower; but I see no flowers in the chamber." "Nor are there any . . . nor, I think, is there any fragrance except in your...to deceive us in this manner. The recollection of a perfume, the bare idea of it, may easily be mistaken for a present reality." I've always taken for... | |
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