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,... The Scarlet Letter - 70. lappuseautors: Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 298 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1850 - 320 lapas
...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,...man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex. They were her countrywomen ; and the beef and ale of their native land,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 - 268 lapas
...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,...the man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuit• able representative of the sex. They were her countrywomen; and the beef and ale of their... | |
| Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 lapas
...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,...briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not a cliaracter of less force and solidity than her own. The women, who were now standing about the prisondoor,... | |
| John White - 1870 - 396 lapas
...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,...character of less force and solidity than her own .... The bright morning sun shone on broad shoulders and welldeveloped busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 624 lapas
...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,...man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex. They were her countrj women ; and the beef and ale cf their native land,... | |
| 1876 - 516 lapas
...them by a series of six or seven generations ; for throughout that chain of ancestry every fluccessive mother has transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a sljghter physical frame, if not a character of less force and solidity than her own. Our inimitable... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 312 lapas
...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,...man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex. They were her countrywomen ; and the beef and ale of their native land,... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 lapas
...seven generations ; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother has transmitted 90 to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and...period when the man-like Elizabeth had been the not alto- i» gether unsuitable representative of the sex. They were her countrywomen ; and the beef and... | |
| Charles Cowley - 1880 - 88 lapas
...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,...character of less force and solidity, than her own." The Rev. Henry N. Hudson, who seems to have taken the world for his parish, as his own beloved Shakespeare... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 306 lapas
...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,...delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical iVame, if not a character of. less force and solidity, than her own. The women who were now standing... | |
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