The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volumen14Houghton Mifflin, 1884 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 54
Página 1
... a discussion of the merits of the theory of Heredity ; but we may , perhaps , assume that faults and frailties are more readily and persis- VOL . I. 1 - tently reproduced than virtues , since the former belong CHAPTER ANCESTRAL MATTERS.
... a discussion of the merits of the theory of Heredity ; but we may , perhaps , assume that faults and frailties are more readily and persis- VOL . I. 1 - tently reproduced than virtues , since the former belong CHAPTER ANCESTRAL MATTERS.
Página 9
... perhaps this gentleman's father . There are not a few who write themselves ' Hathorn , ' but none of them , so far as I know , are in positions that make it desirable to claim kinship with them . They may be of the same blue blood , but ...
... perhaps this gentleman's father . There are not a few who write themselves ' Hathorn , ' but none of them , so far as I know , are in positions that make it desirable to claim kinship with them . They may be of the same blue blood , but ...
Página 11
... Perhaps you never heard that our earliest peculiar ancestor , whose remembrance you have made permanent in the Introduction to the ' Scarlet Letter , ' preached , besides all his other great doings . Mr. Taylor , the minister at ...
... Perhaps you never heard that our earliest peculiar ancestor , whose remembrance you have made permanent in the Introduction to the ' Scarlet Letter , ' preached , besides all his other great doings . Mr. Taylor , the minister at ...
Página 32
... perhaps somewhat impressed , by this reiterated and vehement appeal , and assured Mary Rondel that although , so far as he could remember , he had never heard of her before , she was welcome to as much of his sympathy as she could avail ...
... perhaps somewhat impressed , by this reiterated and vehement appeal , and assured Mary Rondel that although , so far as he could remember , he had never heard of her before , she was welcome to as much of his sympathy as she could avail ...
Página 39
... perhaps , when his professional pursuits are sedentary and imaginative rather than active and practical . Nathaniel Hawthorne was particularly susceptible to influences of this kind ; and all the available evidence goes to show that the ...
... perhaps , when his professional pursuits are sedentary and imaginative rather than active and practical . Nathaniel Hawthorne was particularly susceptible to influences of this kind ; and all the available evidence goes to show that the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: A wonder book. Tanglewood tales Nathaniel Hawthorne Vista completa - 1902 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration affectionate appear beautiful Berkshire bless Blithedale Blithedale Romance Boston brother character child Chimæra clouds Concord DEAR HAWTHORNE DEAREST delight door doubt Elizabeth Elizabeth Hawthorne Emerson England eyes father feel flowers friends give glad hand happy Hawthorne's hear heart Herman Melville honor hope human husband imagination John Hathorne Julian knew lady literary live look Louisa magazine Margaret Fuller marriage married Mary Melville mind Miss Miss Elizabeth moral morning mother Mozier Nathaniel Hawthorne nature never Old Manse Peabody perhaps persons Pierce Romance Salem Scarlet Letter seems sent Seven Gables side sister smile soon Sophia Sophia Peabody soul spirit stand story summer sunshine suppose talk tell tender things thorne thought tion told truth Twice-Told Tales Una's walk week West Newton wife wish write written wrote yesterday young
Pasajes populares
Página 385 - ... the man who, like Russia or the British Empire, declares himself a sovereign nature (in himself) amid the powers of heaven, hell, and earth He may perish, but so long as he exists he insists upon treating with all Powers upon an equal basis...
Página 476 - But Ernest turned away, melancholy, and almost despondent: for this was the saddest of his disappointments, to behold a man who might have fulfilled the prophecy, and had not willed to do so. Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches swept past him, with the vociferous crowd in the rear, leaving the dust to settle down, and the Great Stone Face to be revealed again, with the grandeur that it had worn for untold centuries.
Página 400 - What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,— it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all -my books are botches.
Página 401 - What's the use of elaborating what, in its very essence, is so short-lived as a modern book? Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter.
Página 27 - First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors...
Página 476 - The brow, with its massive depth and loftiness, and all the other features, indeed, were boldly and strongly hewn as if in emulation of a more than heroic, of a Titanic, model. But the sublimity and stateliness, the grand expression of a divine sympathy, that illuminated the mountain visage and etherealized its ponderous granite substance into spirit, might here be sought in vain.
Página 176 - Sophia, you must get up and dress and come down! The Hawthornes are here, and you never saw anything so splendid as he is, — he is handsomer than Lord Byron ! ' She laughed, but refused to come, remarking that since he had called once, he would call again.
Página 123 - I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave. And sometimes it seemed as if I were already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled and benumbed. But oftener I was happy, — at least, as happy as I then knew how to be, or was aware of the possibility of being.
Página 475 - ... fog with his mere breath, and obscure the natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument ; sometimes it rumbled like the thunder ; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music. It was the blast of war, — the song of peace ; and it seemed to have a heart in it, when there was no such matter.
Página 401 - Paradise, in some little shady corner by ourselves, and if we shall by any means be able to smuggle a basket of champagne there (I won't believe in a Temperance Heaven), and if we shall then cross our celestial legs in the celestial grass that is forever tropical, and strike our glasses and our heads together, till both musically ring in concert, — then...