Twice-told Tales, Volumes 1-2Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1879 |
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... mind would naturally have been most effervescent , the Public owe it ( and it is certainly an effect not to be regretted , on either part ) , that the Author can show nothing for the thought and industry of that portion of his life ...
... mind would naturally have been most effervescent , the Public owe it ( and it is certainly an effect not to be regretted , on either part ) , that the Author can show nothing for the thought and industry of that portion of his life ...
Page viii
... mind without a shiver . Whether from lack of power , or an unconquerable reserve , the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman , one ...
... mind without a shiver . Whether from lack of power , or an unconquerable reserve , the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman , one ...
Page ix
... mind and heart ( had it been so , they could hardly have failed to be more deeply and permanently valuable ) , but his attempts , and very imperfectly successful ones , to open an inter- course with the world . - The Author would regret ...
... mind and heart ( had it been so , they could hardly have failed to be more deeply and permanently valuable ) , but his attempts , and very imperfectly successful ones , to open an inter- course with the world . - The Author would regret ...
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... melancholy spirit . But the steeple stands foremost , in our thoughts , as well as locally . It impresses us as a giant , with a mind comprehensive and discriminating enough to care for the great and small concerns of SUNDAY AT HOME.
... melancholy spirit . But the steeple stands foremost , in our thoughts , as well as locally . It impresses us as a giant , with a mind comprehensive and discriminating enough to care for the great and small concerns of SUNDAY AT HOME.
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... mind , with fanciful echoes , till I start from my revery , and find that the sermon has commenced . It is my misfortune seldom to fructify , in a regular way , by any but printed sermons . The first strong idea , which the preacher ...
... mind , with fanciful echoes , till I start from my revery , and find that the sermon has commenced . It is my misfortune seldom to fructify , in a regular way , by any but printed sermons . The first strong idea , which the preacher ...
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Page 156 - Well, well, sir, — no harm done, I hope ! Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but, when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump. This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough.
Page 155 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice — 'Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor!
Page 244 - Man must not disclaim his brotherhood, even with the guiltiest, since, though his hand be clean, his heart has surely been polluted by the flitting phantoms of iniquity.
Page 219 - There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress.
Page 18 - The whole scene was a picture of the condition of New England, and its moral, the deformity of any government that does not grow out of the nature of things and the character of the people.
Page 255 - Pray excuse me," answered the doctor quietly. "I am old and rheumatic, and my dancing days were over long ago. But either of these gay young gentlemen will be glad of so pretty a partner.
Page 49 - and I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself!" "Men sometimes are so,
Page 103 - No, no!" cried he, repelling the idea with reproachful kindness. "When I think of your death, Esther, I think of mine, too. But I was wishing we had a good farm in Bartlett, or Bethlehem, or Littleton, or some other township round the White Mountains; but not where they could tumble on our heads. I should want to stand well with my neighbors and be called Squire, and sent to General Court for a term or two; for a plain, honest man may do as much good there as a lawyer. And when I should be grown...
Page 250 - Dr. Heidegger had been filling the four champagne-glasses with the water of the Fountain of Youth. It was apparently impregnated with an effervescent gas, for little bubbles were continually ascending from the depths of the glasses and bursting in silvery spray at the surface. As the liquor diffused a pleasant perfume, the old people doubted not that it possessed cordial and comfortable properties; and, though utter sceptics as to its rejuvenescent power, they were inclined to swallow it at once....
Page 17 - Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the street. A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth of the passage, with shouldered matchlocks, and matches burning, so as to present a row of fires in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of a machine, that would roll irresistibly over everything in its way. Next moving slowly, with a confused clatter of hoofs on the...