Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales. Twice told tales, first and second series; Snow image, and other tales. (The house with the seven gables, and The scarlet letter). |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales. Twice Told Tales, First and Second Series: Snow ... Nathaniel [Two or More Storie Hawthorne No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales. Twice Told Tales, First and Second Series; Snow ... Nathaniel [two or More Storie Hawthorne No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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answered appeared asked aspect beautiful better bosom brought character child Clifford close continued cousin cried dark dead death deep Dimmesdale door doubt effect expression eyes face father feel felt figure give half hand happy head heard heart Hepzibah Hester Prynne hour human idea imagination judge keep kind knew leave less light live longer look man's matter means mind minister mother nature never object observed once passed past Pearl perhaps person Phoebe poor possessed present Pyncheon regard Roger scarlet letter secret seemed seen sense Seven Gables shadow side smile soon soul speak spirit stand step stood strange street sunshine talk thee things thou thought took town truth turned voice whole wild window woman young
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Página 45 - Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.
Página 57 - The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Página 195 - Such helpfulness was found in her,— so much power to do, and power to sympathize, — that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength.
Página 293 - The complaint of a human heart, sorrow-laden, perchance guilty, telling its secret, whether of guilt or sorrow, to the great heart of mankind, beseeching its sympathy or forgiveness, at every moment, in each accent, and never in vain! It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.
Página 210 - Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time...
Página 211 - It is not granted me to pardon. I have no such power as thou tellest me of. My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me, and explains all that we do, and all we suffer. By thy first step awry thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity. Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands. It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may! Now go...
Página 65 - But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, — so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, — was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Página 260 - No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.