Mosses from an Old Manse, Pagina 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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... heart of man . Art has become a second and stronger Nature ; she is a step - mother , whose crafty tenderness has taught us to despise the bountiful and wholesome ministra- tions of our true parent . It is only through the medium of the ...
... heart of man . Art has become a second and stronger Nature ; she is a step - mother , whose crafty tenderness has taught us to despise the bountiful and wholesome ministra- tions of our true parent . It is only through the medium of the ...
Pagina 2
... heart , but with no knowledge of their prede- cessors , nor of the diseased circumstances that had become encrust- ed around them . Such a pair would at once distinguish between art and nature . Their instincts and intuitions would ...
... heart , but with no knowledge of their prede- cessors , nor of the diseased circumstances that had become encrust- ed around them . Such a pair would at once distinguish between art and nature . Their instincts and intuitions would ...
Pagina 4
... heart . Nature finds nothing else to offer her . Adam , after staring up and down the street , without detecting a single object that his comprehension can lay hold of , finally turns his forehead to the sky . There , indeed , is ...
... heart . Nature finds nothing else to offer her . Adam , after staring up and down the street , without detecting a single object that his comprehension can lay hold of , finally turns his forehead to the sky . There , indeed , is ...
Pagina 7
... heart wast thou established , nor in the simplicity of nature ; but by hard and wrinkled men , and upon the accumulated heap of earthly wrong ! Thou art the very symbol of man's perverted state . On as fruitless an errand our wanderers ...
... heart wast thou established , nor in the simplicity of nature ; but by hard and wrinkled men , and upon the accumulated heap of earthly wrong ! Thou art the very symbol of man's perverted state . On as fruitless an errand our wanderers ...
Pagina 9
... heart is sick ! There seems to be no more sky ! —no more sunshine ! ” Well might Adam shudder , and poor Eve be sick at heart ; for this mysterious object was the type of mankind's whole system , in regard to the great difficulties ...
... heart is sick ! There seems to be no more sky ! —no more sunshine ! ” Well might Adam shudder , and poor Eve be sick at heart ; for this mysterious object was the type of mankind's whole system , in regard to the great difficulties ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Annie answered artist banquet beautiful behold beneath blaze bonfire bosom bosom-serpent breast butterfly Captain Hunnewell carver child cold Copley countenance cried death delicate Dorcas Drowne Drowne's earth earthly evil exclaimed face fancied father Fayal feel figure finger fire flame flung forest gazing Gervayse Hastings glance gleam gloom gnaws guest hand head heap heart Heaven Herkimer hither human idea imagination inquired intellect Intelligencer James Russell Lowell leaves likewise living look looking-glass Lord Byron man's mankind melancholy mind miserable moral mysterious NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature never observed once Owen Warland perhaps Perpetual Motion Peter Hovenden Phidias poet poor Queen Mab replied Reuben Robert Danforth Roderick Elliston Roger Malvin sculptor secret seemed serpent shadow snake soul spirit stood strange street sunshine thing thought threw tion trees tremulous truth Virtuoso voice volume wandering whole wooden wrought young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 189 - Not at this latest moment was he to learn that the reward of all high performance must be sought within itself, or sought in vain. There was, however, a view of the matter, which Annie, and her husband, and even Peter Hovenden, might fully have understood, and which would have satisfied them that the toil of years had here been worthily bestowed. Owen Warland might have told them, that this butterfly, this plaything, this bridal gift of a poor watchmaker to a blacksmith's wife, was, in truth, a gem...
Pagina 191 - When the artist rose high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.
Pagina 211 - These words were spoken with the calm and cold courtesy of manner that had characterized this singular personage throughout our interview. I fancied, it is true, that there was a bitterness indefinably mingled with his tone, as of one cut off from natural sympathies and blasted with a doom that had been inflicted on no other human being, and by the results of which he had ceased to be human. Yet, withal, it seemed one of the most terrible consequences of that doom that the victim no longer regarded...
Pagina 102 - By a certain association of ideas, he at times almost imagined himself a murderer. For years, also, a thought would occasionally recur, which, though he perceived all its folly and extravagance, he had not power to banish from his mind. It was a haunting and torturing fancy that his father-in-law was yet sitting at the foot of the rock, on the withered forest leaves, alive, and awaiting his pledged assistance.
Pagina 156 - As an instance, I remember an old man who carries on a little trade of gingerbread and apples, at the depot of one of our railroads. While awaiting the departure of the cars, my observation, flitting to and fro among the livelier characteristics of the scene, has often settled insensibly upon this almost hueless object.
Pagina 98 - ... were uplifted in a fervent prayer, some of the words of which stole through the stillness of the woods, and entered Reuben's heart, torturing it with an unutterable pang. They were the broken accents of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with him to return, and lie down again by the rock.
Pagina 1 - WE, who are born into the world's artificial system, can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man.
Pagina 66 - ... and here his voice faltered and choked in a very singular manner, — " of this — of her — I may say that I know something, A well-spring of inward wisdom gushed within me as I wrought upon the oak with my whole strength, and soul, and faith. Let others do what they may with marble, and adopt what rules they choose. If I can produce my desired effect by painted wood, those rules are not for me, and I have a right to disregard them.
Pagina 176 - But that is a strange idea of yours," said Owen, "about the spiritualization of matter!" And then the thought stole into his mind, that this young girl possessed the gift to comprehend him, better than all the world beside.
Pagina 36 - Could I for one instant forget myself, the serpent might not abide within me. It is my diseased self-contemplation that has engendered and nourished him." "Then forget yourself, my husband," said a gentle voice above him, "forget yourself in the idea of another!