...frightful hiss, which often ran through the sufferer's speech, and crept between the words and syllable's without interrupting their succession. . " This is...another ! " Rosina had emerged from the arbor, and was bendD ing over him with the shadow of his anguish reflected in her countenance, yet so mingled with...

...You, however, have none in your bosom, and therefore cannot sympathize with the rest of the world. It gnaws me ! It gnaws me ! " With this exclamation Roderick...above him ; " forget yourself in the idea of another ! " Eosina had emerged from the arbor, and was bending over him with the shadow of his anguish reflected...

...sympathize with the rest of the world. It gnaws me ! It gnaws me ! " With this exclamation Koderick lost his self-control and threw himself upon the grass,...above him ; " forget yourself in the idea of another I " Rosina had emerged from the arbor, and was bending over him with the shadow of his anguish reflected...

...himself upon the grass, testifying his agony by intricate writhings, in which Herkimer could not Imt fancy a resemblance to the motions of a snake. Then,...yourself, my husband," said a gentle voice above him ; u forget yourself in the idea of another ! " Rosina had emerged from the arbor, and was bending over...

...Hawthorne's intention, in story after story it is like Roderick's words to the sculptor in "Egotism." Could I for one instant forget myself, the serpent...self-contemplation that has engendered and nourished him. One thinks at once of Baudelaire and then of Huysmans and of Pascal behind them all. They are all of...

..."unhumanized" is to be domesticized. Slithering in the grass, the snake-possessed Roderick hisses, "Could I, for one instant forget myself, the serpent might not abide in me" (10: 282). At this critical juncture Rosina enters their garden saying gently, "Forget yourself,...

...egotism: Hawthorne gives it a story to itself, according to which Roderick Elliston is brought to say: '"Could I, for one instant, forget myself, the serpent...self-contemplation that has engendered and nourished him!'" But before he reaches this degree of wisdom, Hawthorne makes a psychological generalization: 129 The...