 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - History - 1875 - 640 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongua> indeed, was a magic instrument : sometimes it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....the song of peace ; and it seemed to have a heart m it, when there was no such matter. In good truth, he was a wondrous man; and when his tongue had... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1880 - 242 pages
...could make a kind of illuminated fog, with his mere breath, and obscure the natural daylight with it. like the sweetest music. It was the blast of war,...when his tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success,—when it had been heard in halls of state, and in the courts of princes and potentates, —... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1889 - 106 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument : sometimes it rumbled like the thunder ; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....was no such matter. In good truth, he was a wondrous manjand when his tongu"e'had acquired him all other imaginable ^Success, • — when it had been heard... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - American literature - 1891 - 494 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument ; sometimes it rumbled like the thunder ; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....was no such matter. In good truth, he was a wondrous 111:111 ; and when his tongue had acquired him all other i1uaginable success, — when it had been... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1897 - 230 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument: sometimes it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....peace; and it seemed to have a heart in it, when there wag no such matter. W In good truth, he was a wondrous man; and when his tongue had acquired him all... | |
 | Wells Hawks Skinner - English language - 1897 - 282 pages
...of the Great Stone Face had appeared upon the broad shoulders of a certain eminent statesman. * * * In good truth, he was a wondrous man; and when his tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success,—when it had been heard in halls of state, and in the courts of princes and potentates,—after... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 568 pages
...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, when there was no such matter. In good truth, lie was a wondrous man ; and when his tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success, — when... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument : sometimes it rumbled like the thunder ; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success, H 3 o CO w y. M 0 :-'•; :: -\v YORK PJ- ^J LIBRARY H ••.. •% AND 'JN^MIiONI L — when it had... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - Fiction - 1901 - 264 pages
...natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument : sometimes it rumbled like the thunder ; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music....blast of war, — the song of peace ; and it seemed to '5 have a heart in it, when there was no such matter. In good truth, he was a wondrous man ; and when... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - Fiction - 1901 - 254 pages
...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 i5 have a heart in it, when there was no such matter. In... | |
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... 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 ;... 
