Twice-told Tales, Volume 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1861 |
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... thing in it , requires to be read in the clear , brown , twilight at- mosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine , it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages . With the foregoing characteristics ...
... thing in it , requires to be read in the clear , brown , twilight at- mosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine , it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages . With the foregoing characteristics ...
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... thing in its way . Next , moving slowly , with a confused clatter of hoofs on the pavement , rode a party of mounted gentlemen , the central figure being Sir Edmund Andros , elderly , but erect and soldier - like . Those around him were ...
... thing in its way . Next , moving slowly , with a confused clatter of hoofs on the pavement , rode a party of mounted gentlemen , the central figure being Sir Edmund Andros , elderly , but erect and soldier - like . Those around him were ...
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... things and the character of the people . On one side the religious multitude , with their sad visages and dark attire , and on the other , the group of despotic rulers , with the high churchman in the midst , and here and there a ...
... things and the character of the people . On one side the religious multitude , with their sad visages and dark attire , and on the other , the group of despotic rulers , with the high churchman in the midst , and here and there a ...
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... thing but age , as can well be conceived . Compelled to relinquish her first engage . ment , she had been united to a man of twice her own years , to whom she became an exemplary wife , and by whose death she was left in possession of a ...
... thing but age , as can well be conceived . Compelled to relinquish her first engage . ment , she had been united to a man of twice her own years , to whom she became an exemplary wife , and by whose death she was left in possession of a ...
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... thing real . But by what perversity of taste , had the artist represented his principal figure as so wrinkled and decayed , while yet he had decked her out in the brightest splendor of attire , as if the loveliest maiden had suddenly ...
... thing real . But by what perversity of taste , had the artist represented his principal figure as so wrinkled and decayed , while yet he had decked her out in the brightest splendor of attire , as if the loveliest maiden had suddenly ...
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affection Annie appeared awful beautiful became become bell beneath black veil breath bright Carbuncle cause child church close comes continued cried dark dead death deep Dominicus door earth expression eyes face fancy feeling figure fire fountain friends gathered gaze girl give glance glass grave gray green hand head heard heart Heaven hill Hooper hour Ilbrahim keep kind lady leaves light living look meet Merry mind moral morning mother Mount natural never night observed once passed perhaps person picture poor Puritan Quaker replied rose round scene seemed shadow side smile soul spirit stand step stood strange street sunshine tell thing thou thought till toll town trees turned voice Wakefield wandering whispered whole wife wild window woman young youth
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Page 282 - He sat in a highbacked, elaborately-carved, oaken arm-chair, with a gray dignity of aspect that might have well befitted that very Father Time, whose power had never been disputed, save by this fortunate company. Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage. But, the next moment, the exhilarating gush of young life shot through their veins. They were now in the happy prime of youth. Age, with its miserable train of...
Page 9 - The sketches are not, it is hardly necessary to say, profound; but it is rather more remarkable that they so seldom, if ever, show any design on the writer's part to make them so. They have none of the abstruseness of idea, or obscurity of expression, which mark the written communications of a solitary mind with itself. They never need translation. It is, in fact, the style of a man of society.
Page 280 - Patience, patience!" quoth Dr. Heidegger, who sat watching the experiment with philosophic coolness. "You have been a long time growing old; surely you might be content to grow young in half an hour. But the water is at your service." Again he filled their glasses with the liquor of youth, enough of which still remained in the vase to turn half the old people in the city to the age of their own grandchildren. While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim the doctor's four guests snatched their...
Page 272 - 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 54 - But the bride's cold fingers quivered in the tremulous hand of the bridegroom, and her deathlike paleness caused a whisper that the maiden who had been buried a few hours before was come from her grave to be married. If ever another wedding were so dismal, it was that famous one where they tolled the wedding knell. After performing the ceremony, Mr. Hooper raised a glass of wine to his lips, wishing happiness to the new-married couple in a strain of mild pleasantry that ought to have brightened the...
Page 230 - The most desirable mode of existence might be that of a spiritualized Paul Pry hovering invisible round man and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself.
Page 15 - There were the sober garb, the general severity of mien, the gloomy but undismayed expression, the scriptural forms of speech, and the confidence in Heaven's blessing on a righteous cause, which would have marked a band of the original Puritans, when threatened by some peril of the wilderness.
Page 279 - Drink, then," said the doctor, bowing; " I rejoice that I have so well selected the subjects of my experiment." With palsied hands they raised the glasses to their lips. The liquor, if it really possessed such virtues as Dr.
Page 274 - ... duodecimos. Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton.
Page 280 - Again he filled their glasses with the liquor of youth, enough of which still remained in the vase to turn half the old people in the city to the age of their own grandchildren. While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table and swallowed the contents at a single gulp. Was it delusion? Even while the draught was passing down their throats it seemed to have wrought a change on their whole systems. Their eyes grew clear and bright ;...