Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts, Volume 1Wiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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Pagina 10
... guests examine a row of family portraits , but are too dull to recognize them as men and women , beneath the disguise of a preposterous garb , and with features and expression debased , because inherited through ages of moral and ...
... guests examine a row of family portraits , but are too dull to recognize them as men and women , beneath the disguise of a preposterous garb , and with features and expression debased , because inherited through ages of moral and ...
Pagina 12
... guests , were summoned to the unknown regions of illimitable space . At the moment of fate , the table was actually spread , and the company on the point of sitting down . Adam and Eve came unbidden to the ban- quet ; it has now been ...
... guests , were summoned to the unknown regions of illimitable space . At the moment of fate , the table was actually spread , and the company on the point of sitting down . Adam and Eve came unbidden to the ban- quet ; it has now been ...
Pagina 35
... guest and himself . This unnatural restraint was almost the only trait that betokened anything amiss . He had just thrown a book upon the grass , where it lay half - opened , thus disclosing itself to be a natural history of the serpent ...
... guest and himself . This unnatural restraint was almost the only trait that betokened anything amiss . He had just thrown a book upon the grass , where it lay half - opened , thus disclosing itself to be a natural history of the serpent ...
Pagina 39
... guests , or of selecting among such as might advance their claims to partake of this dismal hospitality , was confided to the two trustees or stewards of the fund . These gentlemen , like their deceased friend , were sombre humorists ...
... guests , or of selecting among such as might advance their claims to partake of this dismal hospitality , was confided to the two trustees or stewards of the fund . These gentlemen , like their deceased friend , were sombre humorists ...
Pagina 40
... guest , shrouded in a black mantle , sat now at the head of the table . It was whispered , I know not with what truth , that the testator himself had once walked the visible world with the machinery of that same skele- ton , and that it ...
... guest , shrouded in a black mantle , sat now at the head of the table . It was whispered , I know not with what truth , that the testator himself had once walked the visible world with the machinery of that same skele- ton , and that it ...
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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
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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.