Mosses from an Old ManseGeorge P. Putnam, 1851 |
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Pagina 8
... shapes everything on one pattern . There is exquisite delight , too , in picking up , for one's self , an arrow - head that was dropt centuries ago , and has never been handled since , and which we thus receive directly from the hand of ...
... shapes everything on one pattern . There is exquisite delight , too , in picking up , for one's self , an arrow - head that was dropt centuries ago , and has never been handled since , and which we thus receive directly from the hand of ...
Pagina 10
Nathaniel Hawthorne. itself in free - hearted benevolence . The variety of grotesque shapes into which apple - trees contort themselves , has its effect on those who get acquainted with them : they stretch out their crooked branches ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne. itself in free - hearted benevolence . The variety of grotesque shapes into which apple - trees contort themselves , has its effect on those who get acquainted with them : they stretch out their crooked branches ...
Pagina 12
... shapes of summer - squashes , gathered from vines which I will plant with my own hands . As dishes for containing vegetables , they would be peculiarly appropriate . But not merely the squeamish love of the Beautiful was grati fied by ...
... shapes of summer - squashes , gathered from vines which I will plant with my own hands . As dishes for containing vegetables , they would be peculiarly appropriate . But not merely the squeamish love of the Beautiful was grati fied by ...
Pagina 22
... surface , and that the depth below was none the worse for it . Once as wo turned our boat to the bank , there was a cloud in the shape of an immensely gigantic figure of a hound , couched above the MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
... surface , and that the depth below was none the worse for it . Once as wo turned our boat to the bank , there was a cloud in the shape of an immensely gigantic figure of a hound , couched above the MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
Pagina 27
... shapes of men than might have been encountered elsewhere , in a circuit of a thousand miles . These hobgoblins of flesh and blood were attracted thither by the wide - spreading influence of a great original Thinker , who had his earthly ...
... shapes of men than might have been encountered elsewhere , in a circuit of a thousand miles . These hobgoblins of flesh and blood were attracted thither by the wide - spreading influence of a great original Thinker , who had his earthly ...
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Adam and Eve amid Aminadab Annie answered Apollyon ash trees aspect Aylmer Baglioni Beatrice beautiful behold beneath birth-mark blaze bosom breath bright Bullfrog burthen calash Celestial City character cried dark deep dream du Miroir earth earthly exclaimed eyes face faith fancy father felt fingers fire flame flowers flowers of Eden forest fountain garden gaze Georgiana Giovanni glance gleam glow Goodman Brown grew guest Hall of Fantasy hand head heart Heaven human idea imagination inhabitants leaves light living looked looking-glass man's mankind mind Miroir moral murmured mystery nature never observed Old Manse once Owen Warland passed perhaps poor Rappaccini replied Reuben rich river Roderick seemed shadow shrub Signor smile Smooth-it-away soul spirit stood strange sunshine thing thou thought tion trees truth Vanity Fair Virtuoso visage voice wandering whispered whole wife window withered woman wrought young young Goodman Brown youth
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Pagina 73 - 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 newborn babe," said the shape...
Pagina 76 - ... doubting whether there really was a heaven above him. Yet there was the blue arch, and the stars brightening in it. "With heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!
Pagina 93 - Her face being now more revealed than on the former occasion, he was struck by its expression of simplicity and sweetness; qualities that had not entered into his idea of her character, and which made him ask anew, what manner of mortal she might be. Nor did he fail again to observe, or imagine, an analogy between the beautiful girl and the gorgeous shrub that hung its gem-like flowers over the fountain...
Pagina 77 - 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.
Pagina 70 - As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveller was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still they might have been taken for father and son. And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and...
Pagina 68 - Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee." So they parted; and the young man pursued his way until, being about to turn the corner by the meeting-house, he looked back and saw the head of Faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons. "Poor little Faith!
Pagina 76 - Salem village, but never until now from a cloud of night. There was one voice of a young woman, uttering lamentations, yet with an uncertain sorrow, and entreating for some favor, which perhaps, it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners, seemed to encourage her onward. 'Faith!
Pagina 82 - ... was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an 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 ?
Pagina 75 - ... athwart which they must have passed. Goodman Brown alternately crouched and stood on tiptoe, pulling aside the branches and thrusting forth his head as far as he durst without discerning so much as a shadow. It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he...
Pagina 75 - ... so much as a shadow. It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin, jogging along quietly, as they were wont to do, when bound to some ordination or ecclesiastical council.