 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...  Twice-told Tales - Page 231by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their heart«, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...if I would know the interior of brick walls, or the royetery of human bosoms, I can but guess. Yonder is a fair street, extending north and couth. The... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 464 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...street, extending north and south. The stately mansions arc placed each on its carpet of verdant grass, and a long flight of steps descends from every door... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...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. But none of these things being possible, our wistful watchman, if he would know the interior of brick walls, or the mystery... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 310 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, 16 and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself;" whose mental operations and methods are of the class indicated in the foregoing examination—it is... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 270 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...these things are possible ; and if I would know the iuterior of brick walls, or the mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess. Yonder is a fair street,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 540 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...of these things are possible ; and if I would know U" >*teSIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE. 209 rior of brick walls, or tlie mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short stories, American - 1894 - 640 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity, and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...brick walls, or the mystery of human bosoms, I can bnt guess. Yonder is a fair street, extending north and south. The stately mansions are placed each... | |
 | Mary Fisher - American literature - 1899 - 408 pages
...and woman, witnessing their deeds, searching their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself." One of the most admirable examples of this dramatic power to enter into the feelings of another is... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 506 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearths, borrowing brightness from their felicity and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself." There are those who would dislike this busybody occupation, and others, such as Emerson perhaps, might... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - New England - 1910 - 450 pages
...woman, witnessing their deeds, searching into their hearts, borrowing brightness from their felicity and shade from their sorrow, and retaining no emotion...or the mystery of human bosoms, I can but guess." It is interesting to learn that even this church, which could be seen from the window of the Herbert... | |
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