Mosses from an Old Manse, Volumes 1-2G. P. Putnam, 1851 |
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Adam Adam and Eve amid Annie answered Apollyon Aylmer Beatrice beautiful behold beneath birth-mark blaze bosom breath Bullfrog burthen butterfly Celestial City cheek countenance cried dark death deep Dorcas dream Drowne earth earthly Elliston evil exclaimed eyes face faith fancy Fantasy father figure finger fire flame flowers flowers of Eden forest garden gaze Georgiana Gervayse Hastings Giovanni glance gleam Goodman Brown guest hall Hall of Fantasy hand head heart Heaven Hovenden human Hunnewell idea imagination leaves light living look looking-glass Lord Byron Malvin man's mankind mind Miroir moral murmured mystery nature never observed Old Manse once Owen Warland passed perhaps poor Rappaccini replied Reuben rich Roderick seemed shadow shrub smile Smooth-it-away soul spirit stood strange sunshine thing thou thought tion trees truth Vanity Fair Virtuoso voice wandering whole window withered woman wrought young young Goodman Brown youth
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Pagina 79 - ... full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an altar or a pulpit and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting.
Pagina 70 - So they parted; and the young man pursued his way until, being about to turn the corner by the meetinghouse, 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 73 - Then Goody Cloyse knows her old friend?" observed the traveller, confronting her, and leaning on his writhing stick. "Ah, forsooth, and is it your worship, indeed?
Pagina 76 - ... intercepted, even for a moment, the faint gleam from the strip of bright sky 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 recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin, jogging along quietly, as they were wont to do, when bound to some...
Pagina 71 - 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 who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table...
Pagina 74 - 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 new-born babe said the...
Pagina 102 - ... the thicket. Several also would have shocked a delicate instinct by an appearance of artificialness indicating that there had been such commixture, and, as it were, adultery, of various vegetable species, that the production was no longer of God's making, but the monstrous offspring of man's depraved fancy, glowing with only an evil mockery of beauty. They were probably the result of experiment, which in one or two cases had succeeded in mingling plants individually lovely into a compound possessing...
Pagina 73 - As he spoke he pointed his staff at a female figure on the path, in whom Goodman Brown recognized a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin. "A marvel, truly, that Goody Cloyse should be so far in the wilderness at nightfall,
Pagina 82 - Far more than this. It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom, the deep mystery of sin, the fountain of all wicked arts, and which inexhaustibly supplies more evil impulses than human power — than my power at its utmost — can make manifest in deeds.
Pagina 93 - Giovanni had half-hoped, half-feared, would be the case, — a figure appeared beneath the antique sculptured portal, and came down between the rows of plants, inhaling their various perfumes, as if she were one of those beings of old classic fable, that lived upon sweet odors. On again beholding Beatrice, the young man was even startled to perceive how much her beauty exceeded his recollection of it; so brilliant, so vivid was its character, that she glowed amid the sunlight, and, as Giovanni whispered...