 ... 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...  Mosses from an Old Manse - Pagina 98door Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1843 - 708 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...and motionless features from behind a nearer, and yel a nearer tree. Hut such must have been Reuben's own late, had ho tarried another sunset ; and who... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pagina’s
...of a petition for hie own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...corpse, stealing gradually towards him through the furcst, and showing its ghastly and motionless features from behind a nearer, and yet a nearer tree.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pagina’s
...happiness and that of Dorcas; and, as the youth listened, conscicnce, or something in its similituds, pleaded strongly with him to return and lie down again...hard was the doom of the kind and generous being whom ho had deserted in his extremity. Death would come like the slow approach of a corpse, stealing gradually... | |
 | 1882 - 580 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...extremity. Death would come like the slow approach oFa corpse, stealing gradually towards him through the forest, and showing its ghastly and motionless... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 582 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas : and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...deserted in his extremity. Death would come like the blow approach of a corpse, stealing gradually towards him through the forest, and showing its ghastly... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 580 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...deserted in his extremity. Death would come like the Blow approach of a corpse, stealing gradually towards him through the forest, and showing its ghastly... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 568 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas ; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with...the slow approach of a corpse, stealing gradually toward* him through the forest, and showing its ghastly and motionless features from behind a nearer... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - 1991 - 188 pagina’s
...of a petition for his own happiness and that of Dorcas; and, as the youth listened, conscience, or something in its similitude, pleaded strongly with him to return, and lie down again by the rock. (X:345-46) Bourne can love Roger Malvin when he knows the man will live, will recover to be himself—with... | |
 | Renée L. Bergland - 2000 - 220 pagina’s
...Reuben Bourne are Indian fighters, out after scalp bounties. An Indian-like death stalks Roger Malvin, "stealing gradually towards him through the forest,...features from behind a nearer, and yet a nearer tree" (T, 95). Demonic Indians can be glimpsed in the red glare that illuminates the shadowy forests of "Young... | |
 | John Updike - 2007 - 177 pagina’s
...between the pages onto his blanket. The image of Roger Malvin lying alone, dying, in the forest— "Death would come like the slow approach of a corpse,...features from behind a nearer and yet a nearer tree"— frightened him. Bech fell asleep early and suffered from swollen, homesick dreams. It had been the... | |
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