The Scarlet LetterHoughton, Mifflin, 1878 - 298 lappuses |
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1.5. rezultāts no 33.
27. lappuse
... strange , indolent , unjoyous attachment for my na- tive town , that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice , when I might as well , or better , have gone somewhere else . My doom was on me . was not the first time ...
... strange , indolent , unjoyous attachment for my na- tive town , that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice , when I might as well , or better , have gone somewhere else . My doom was on me . was not the first time ...
56. lappuse
... strange things , and make them look like truth , he need never try to write romances . - But , for myself , during the whole of my Custom House experience , moonlight and sunshine , and the glow of firelight , were just alike in my ...
... strange things , and make them look like truth , he need never try to write romances . - But , for myself , during the whole of my Custom House experience , moonlight and sunshine , and the glow of firelight , were just alike in my ...
61. lappuse
... strange experience , to a man of pride and sensibility , to know that his interests are within the control of in- dividuals who neither love nor understand him , and by whom , since one or the other must needs happen , he would rather ...
... strange experience , to a man of pride and sensibility , to know that his interests are within the control of in- dividuals who neither love nor understand him , and by whom , since one or the other must needs happen , he would rather ...
68. lappuse
... strange chance , has been kept alive in history ; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness , so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally over- shadowed it , or whether , as there is ...
... strange chance , has been kept alive in history ; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness , so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally over- shadowed it , or whether , as there is ...
80. lappuse
... strange , penetrating power , when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul . This figure of the study and the cloister , as Hester Prynne's womanly fancy failed not to recall , was slightly deformed , with the left shoulder ...
... strange , penetrating power , when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul . This figure of the study and the cloister , as Hester Prynne's womanly fancy failed not to recall , was slightly deformed , with the left shoulder ...
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answered Hester Art thou Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld beneath bosom breast breath brook brought character child clergyman cried Custom House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale's Dost thou earth earthly EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE England evil eyes face fancy father felt forest gaze gleam Governor Bellingham gray guilty hand hath Hawthorne head heart Hester Prynne hither human ignominy imagination impulse infant ister kind knew light likewise little Pearl look magistrates market-place ment mind minister minister's Mistress Hibbins mother nature ness never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passion physician pillory poor Prynne's Puritan Reverend Roger Chilling scaffold scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame sion smile sorrow soul speak spirit step stern stood strange sunshine Surveyor sympathy thee Thomas Wentworth Higginson thought tion token tom House town truth Twice-Told Tales voice whispered wild Wilt thou woman yonder young
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234. lappuse - We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart" Thou and I, Hester, never did so!
189. lappuse - That is imaginative, impressive, poetic; but when, almost immediately afterwards, the author goes on to say that "the minister looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter the letter A marked out in lines of dull red light...
70. lappuse - Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding, than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations ; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother has transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not a character of less force and solidity, than her own.
258. lappuse - 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 any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which...
310. lappuse - But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home. Here had been her sin ; here, her sorrow ; and here was yet to be her penitence.
89. lappuse - Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him ; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.
265. lappuse - Tempted by a dream of happiness, he had yielded himself, with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was deadly sin.
71. lappuse - ... thinner in the atmosphere of New England. There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone. "Goodwives," said a hard-featured dame of fifty, "I '11 tell ye a piece of my mind.
173. lappuse - All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flames; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.