 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 Scarlet Letter - 173. lappuseautors: Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 298 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 - 268 lapas
...they lacked was, the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the 'power of speech...languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhox>d in the heart's native language. These fathers, otherwise so apostolic, lacked Heaven's... | |
 | Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 lapas
...they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples, at Pentecost, in tongues cf flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...would have vainly sought —had they ever dreamed of seeking—to express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words and images. Their... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 330 lapas
...they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame ; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...rarest attestation of their office, the Tongue of Jlame. They would have vainly sought — had they ever dreamed of seeking — to express the highest... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1898 - 362 lapas
...they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...office, the Tongue of Flame. They would have vainly sought—had they ever dreamed of seeking—to express the highest truths through the humblest medium... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 610 lapas
...they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...ever dreamed of seeking —• to express the highest truth through the humblest medium of familiar words and images. Their voices came down, afar and indistinctly,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1919 - 318 lapas
...them. All/thslg icked was the gift that descended upon the ciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...Flame*) They would have vainly sought — had they e^er dreamed of seeking — to express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words... | |
 | Michael J. Colacurcio, Michael Colacurcio, Emory Elliot - 1985 - 180 lapas
...they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples, at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech...human brotherhood in the heart's native language" (pp. 141-2). The category is one a Puritan would have understood - that of the purely "civil" man unregenerated... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 lapas
...of popular esteem. His "Tongue of Flame," corresponding to Hawthorne's artistic gifts, enables him "to express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words and images." Uniquely among the preachers of Boston he has the power "of addressing the whole human brotherhood... | |
 | Dennis A. Foster - 1987 - 162 lapas
...listeners, confusing rather than clarifying the structure of God's order. Dimmesdale's famous capacity to 'express the highest truths through the humblest medium of familiar words and images' (SL 104) seems to be less a matter of granting his listeners an insight into obscure realms of knowledge... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1990 - 304 lapas
...imaginative narrative with which we are concerned, the narrator interprets them as symbols "not of the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages,...human brotherhood in the heart's native language" (p. 161). The scarletgarbed child — "The character of flame" — addresses an unspoken truth to a... | |
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