Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts, Volume 1Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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Pagina 3
... glance , to the dreams and shadows that perplex them everywhere else . " Sweetest Eve , where are we ? " exclaims the new Adam , — for speech , or some equivalent mode of expression , is born with them , and comes just as natural as ...
... glance , to the dreams and shadows that perplex them everywhere else . " Sweetest Eve , where are we ? " exclaims the new Adam , — for speech , or some equivalent mode of expression , is born with them , and comes just as natural as ...
Pagina 24
... glance that it had ever been his fortune to en- counter . " All pure and wholesome ? No reptile there ? By my faith and conscience , and by the devil within me , here is a wonder ! A man without a serpent in his bosom ! " " Be calm ...
... glance that it had ever been his fortune to en- counter . " All pure and wholesome ? No reptile there ? By my faith and conscience , and by the devil within me , here is a wonder ! A man without a serpent in his bosom ! " " Be calm ...
Pagina 41
... glance at this figure of death , as seeking thence the solu- tion otherwise unattainable , the only reply would be a stare of the vacant eye - caverns , and a grin of the skeleton - jaws . Such was the response that the dead man had ...
... glance at this figure of death , as seeking thence the solu- tion otherwise unattainable , the only reply would be a stare of the vacant eye - caverns , and a grin of the skeleton - jaws . Such was the response that the dead man had ...
Pagina 43
... glance of general scrutiny which the intruder threw over his companions . What had he to do among them ? Why did not the skeleton of the dead founder of the feast unbend its rattling joints , arise , and motion the unwelcome stranger ...
... glance of general scrutiny which the intruder threw over his companions . What had he to do among them ? Why did not the skeleton of the dead founder of the feast unbend its rattling joints , arise , and motion the unwelcome stranger ...
Pagina 54
... glance around the table , as if to ascertain whether any guest had yet appeared , after so many unsuccessful banquets , who might impart to him the mystery - the deep , warm secret — the life within the life — which , whether manifested ...
... glance around the table , as if to ascertain whether any guest had yet appeared , after so many unsuccessful banquets , who might impart to him the mystery - the deep , warm secret — the life within the life — which , whether manifested ...
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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.