The Scarlet Letter: A RomanceH. Altemus, 1892 - Всего страниц: 348 |
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Ann Hutchinson answered Hester Art thou Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld beneath bosom breast brook brought character child clergyman cried Custom-House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale's Dost thou earth earthly embroidered England evil eyes face fancy father felt forest gaze gleam Governor Bellingham grave gray guilty hand hath head heart heaven Hester Prynne hither human ignominy imagine impulse infant kind King's Chapel knew light likewise little Pearl look magistrates man's market-place ment mind minister minister's Mistress Hibbins moral murmur nature ness never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passed passion personage physician pillory poor portunities Prynne's Puritan Reverend Roger Chil scaffold scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame sinful smile solemn sorrow soul speak spirit step stern stood strange sunshine Surveyor sympathy thee thought tion token torture town tremulous truth voice whispered wild Wilt thou woman yonder young
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Стр. 17 - A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life, what mode of glorifying God or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, may that be ? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler ! " Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time!
Стр. 75 - Open a passage; and, I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel, from this time till an hour past meridian. A blessing on the righteous Colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the marketplace!
Стр. 51 - 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.
Стр. 285 - At least, they shall say of me," thought this exemplary man, "that I leave no public duty unperformed, nor ill performed ! " Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived ! We have had, and may still have, worse things to tell of him ; but none, we apprehend, so pitiably weak; no evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease, that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character. No man, for...
Стр. 15 - Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect which will last longer, it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many.
Стр. 347 - The angel and apostle of the coining revelation must be a woman indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful ; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end ! So said Hester Prynne, and glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter.
Стр. 66 - Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world.
Стр. 260 - Backward to the settlement, thou sayest ! Yes, but onward, too. Deeper it goes, and deeper, into the wilderness, less plainly to be seen at every step ; until, some few miles hence, the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread.
Стр. 52 - Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age ; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
Стр. 45 - I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron.