Mosses from an Old ManseGeorge P. Putnam, 1851 |
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... volumes . The old books would have been worth nothing at an auction . In this venerable garret , however , they possessed an interest quite apart from their literary value , as heirlooms , many of which had been transmitted down through ...
... volumes . The old books would have been worth nothing at an auction . In this venerable garret , however , they possessed an interest quite apart from their literary value , as heirlooms , many of which had been transmitted down through ...
Pagina 16
... volumes to a chapter . Then there was a vast folio Body of Divinity ; too corpulent a body , it might be feared , to comprehend the spiritual element of religion . Vol- umes of this form dated back two hundred years , or more , and were ...
... volumes to a chapter . Then there was a vast folio Body of Divinity ; too corpulent a body , it might be feared , to comprehend the spiritual element of religion . Vol- umes of this form dated back two hundred years , or more , and were ...
Pagina 17
... Volumes of the Liberal Preacher and Christian Examiner , occasional ser mons , controversial pamphlets , tracts , and other productions of a like fugitive nature , took the place of the thick and heavy volumes of past time . In a ...
... Volumes of the Liberal Preacher and Christian Examiner , occasional ser mons , controversial pamphlets , tracts , and other productions of a like fugitive nature , took the place of the thick and heavy volumes of past time . In a ...
Pagina 18
... volume has a charm in my eyes , similar to what scraps of manuscript possess for the good Mussulman ; he imagines that those wind - wafted records are perhaps hallowed by some sacred verse ; and I , that every new book , or antique one ...
... volume has a charm in my eyes , similar to what scraps of manuscript possess for the good Mussulman ; he imagines that those wind - wafted records are perhaps hallowed by some sacred verse ; and I , that every new book , or antique one ...
Pagina 43
... volumes of his scientific library . In many dark old tomes , she met with chapters full of romance and poetry . They were the works of the philosophers of the middle MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . ages , such as THE BIRTH - MARK . 43.
... volumes of his scientific library . In many dark old tomes , she met with chapters full of romance and poetry . They were the works of the philosophers of the middle MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE . ages , such as THE BIRTH - MARK . 43.
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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.