Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts, Volume 1Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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Pagina 164
... Owen Warland be about ? " muttered old Peter Hovenden , himself a retired watch - maker , and the former mas- ter of this same young man , whose occupation he was now won- dering at . " What can the fellow be about ? These six months ...
... Owen Warland be about ? " muttered old Peter Hovenden , himself a retired watch - maker , and the former mas- ter of this same young man , whose occupation he was now won- dering at . " What can the fellow be about ? These six months ...
Pagina 165
... Owen Warland's irregu- lar genius . " A plague on such ingenuity ! All the effect that ever I knew of it was , to spoil the accuracy of some of the best watches in my shop . He would turn the sun out of its orbit , and derange the whole ...
... Owen Warland's irregu- lar genius . " A plague on such ingenuity ! All the effect that ever I knew of it was , to spoil the accuracy of some of the best watches in my shop . He would turn the sun out of its orbit , and derange the whole ...
Pagina 166
... Owen Warland's shop , and spend more meditation upon his history and character than either Peter Ho- venden , or probably his daughter Annie , or Owen's old school- fellow , Robert Danforth , would have thought due to so slight a ...
... Owen Warland's shop , and spend more meditation upon his history and character than either Peter Ho- venden , or probably his daughter Annie , or Owen's old school- fellow , Robert Danforth , would have thought due to so slight a ...
Pagina 167
... Owen's mind was microscopic , and tended na- turally to the minute , in accordance with his diminutive frame , and the marvellous smallness and delicate power of his fingers . Not that his sense of beauty was thereby diminished into a ...
... Owen's mind was microscopic , and tended na- turally to the minute , in accordance with his diminutive frame , and the marvellous smallness and delicate power of his fingers . Not that his sense of beauty was thereby diminished into a ...
Pagina 168
... Owen's lack of sturdiness made it possible , by strict injunctions and sharp oversight , to restrain his creative eccentricity within bounds . But when his apprenticeship was served out , and he had taken the little shop which Peter ...
... Owen's lack of sturdiness made it possible , by strict injunctions and sharp oversight , to restrain his creative eccentricity within bounds . But when his apprenticeship was served out , and he had taken the little shop which Peter ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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 father Fayal feel figure finger fire flame flung forest gazing Gervayse Hastings glance gleam gloomy 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 175 - ... content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp. Owen Warland felt the impulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty, imperfectly copied from the richness of their visions.
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 186 - It was carved richly out of ebony by his own hand, and inlaid with a fanciful tracery of pearl, representing a boy in pursuit of a butterfly, which, elsewhere, had become a winged spirit, and was flying heavenward; while the boy, or youth, had found such efficacy in his strong desire that he ascended from earth to cloud, and from cloud to celestial atmosphere, to win the beautiful.
Pagina 112 - At that moment the withered topmost bow of the oak loosened itself in the stilly air, and fell in soft, light fragments upon the rock, upon the leaves, upon Reuben, upon his wife and child, and upon Roger Malvin's bones.
Pagina 182 - Then, in a mysterious way, he would confess that he once thought differently. In his idle and dreamy days he had considered it possible, in a certain sense, to spiritualize machinery, and to combine with the new species of life and motion thus produced a beauty that should attain to the ideal which Nature has proposed to herself in all her creatures, but has never taken pains to realize.
Pagina 155 - How sad a truth — if true it were — that Man's age-long endeavor for perfection had served only to render him the mockery of the Evil Principle, from the fatal circumstance of an error at the very root of the matter! The Heart — the Heart — there was the little, yet boundless sphere, wherein existed the original wrong, of which the crime and misery of this outward world were merely types.
Pagina 103 - ... with success. The irritability by which he had recently become distinguished, was another cause of his declining prosperity, as it occasioned frequent quarrels in his un-avoidable intercourse with the neighboring settlers. The results of these were innumerable lawsuits ; for the people of New England, in the earliest stages and wildest circumstances of the country, adopted, whenever attainable, the legal mode of deciding their differences. To be brief, the world did not go well with Reuben Bourne;...
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.