Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1885 |
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... thoughts which succeed those of boyhood made him look more broadly , and therefore more humbly , upon the relations of things and men . But , at all events , he had a better chance than his sisters to escape from the pensive gloom of ...
... thoughts which succeed those of boyhood made him look more broadly , and therefore more humbly , upon the relations of things and men . But , at all events , he had a better chance than his sisters to escape from the pensive gloom of ...
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... thought it possible I might have paid some attention to my ancestry , and told me that this old Major , with about a dozen others , whose names he mentioned , used to go by turns to Manchester to preach . He had the informa- tion from ...
... thought it possible I might have paid some attention to my ancestry , and told me that this old Major , with about a dozen others , whose names he mentioned , used to go by turns to Manchester to preach . He had the informa- tion from ...
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... thought of this communication is not known ; but , at all events , Governor Bellingham and Major Hawthorne did not go to London at the King's command . Miss Haw- thorne , in writing of this document , says : - " Mr. Palfrey told Mr ...
... thought of this communication is not known ; but , at all events , Governor Bellingham and Major Hawthorne did not go to London at the King's command . Miss Haw- thorne , in writing of this document , says : - " Mr. Palfrey told Mr ...
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... their King , your Honor may easily judge . The thoughts whereof I do undoubtedly believe would be an utter abhorrency to all , good and bad . But what extremity may force them to , that God only knows 20 HAWTHORNE AND HIS WIFE .
... their King , your Honor may easily judge . The thoughts whereof I do undoubtedly believe would be an utter abhorrency to all , good and bad . But what extremity may force them to , that God only knows 20 HAWTHORNE AND HIS WIFE .
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... thoughts are not as man's , and His counsel only shall stand . The present of masts above mentioned , containing two great ones , now aboard Captain Pierce , fitting to accommodate the building another " Prince Royal , " and a shipload ...
... thoughts are not as man's , and His counsel only shall stand . The present of masts above mentioned , containing two great ones , now aboard Captain Pierce , fitting to accommodate the building another " Prince Royal , " and a shipload ...
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Page 104 - Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you would feel to see my works praised by the reviewers, as equal to the proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them.
Page 25 - 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...
Page 474 - 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.
Page 25 - I will that all my just Debts and funeral charges be paid and discharged by my Executors, and particularly that they pay to the Orders of Mr.
Page 398 - I am so pulled hither and thither by circumstances. The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose, — that, I fear, can seldom be mine.
Page 473 - Confess it," said one of Ernest's neighbors to him, "the Great Stone Face has met its match at last!" Now, it must be owned that, at his first glimpse of the countenance which was bowing and smiling from the barouche, Ernest did fancy that there was a resemblance between it and the old familiar face upon the mountain-side.
Page 257 - It was such an awful joke, that she should have resolved—in all sincerity, no doubt — to make herself the greatest, wisest, best woman of the age. And to that end she set to work on her strong, heavy, unpliable, and, in many respects, defective and evil nature...
Page 473 - ... 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.
Page 398 - Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me,— I shall at last be worn out and perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. 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.
Page 399 - 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...