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Pagina 41
... inward world , and caused him to see monstrous faces in the house- hold fire , and dragons in the clouds of sun - set , and fiends in the guise of beautiful women , and something ugly or wicked THE CHRISTMAS BANQUET . 41.
... inward world , and caused him to see monstrous faces in the house- hold fire , and dragons in the clouds of sun - set , and fiends in the guise of beautiful women , and something ugly or wicked THE CHRISTMAS BANQUET . 41.
Pagina 42
... fire that tortured his own breast , and could not benefit his race . Then there entered - having flung away a ticket for a ball - a gay gallant of yesterday , who had found four or five wrinkles in his brow , and more grey hairs than he ...
... fire that tortured his own breast , and could not benefit his race . Then there entered - having flung away a ticket for a ball - a gay gallant of yesterday , who had found four or five wrinkles in his brow , and more grey hairs than he ...
Pagina 47
... fire . Again , likewise , the hall , with its curtains of dusky purple , was illuminated by the death - torches , gleaming on the sepulchral decorations of the banquet . The veiled skeleton sat in state , lifting the cypress - wreath ...
... fire . Again , likewise , the hall , with its curtains of dusky purple , was illuminated by the death - torches , gleaming on the sepulchral decorations of the banquet . The veiled skeleton sat in state , lifting the cypress - wreath ...
Pagina 54
... fire . But age stole onward , and benumbed him more and more . As the hoar - frost began to gather on him , his wife went to her grave , and was doubtless warmer there ; his children either died , or were scattered to different homes of ...
... fire . But age stole onward , and benumbed him more and more . As the hoar - frost began to gather on him , his wife went to her grave , and was doubtless warmer there ; his children either died , or were scattered to different homes of ...
Pagina 71
... fire . " If she be other than a bubble of the elements , " exclaimed Copley , " I must look upon her face again ! " He accordingly entered the shop ; and there , in her usual corner , stood the image , gazing at him , as it might seem ...
... fire . " If she be other than a bubble of the elements , " exclaimed Copley , " I must look upon her face again ! " He accordingly entered the shop ; and there , in her usual corner , stood the image , gazing at him , as it might seem ...
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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 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.