The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, 1. sējumsG. Routledge, 1852 - 252 lappuses |
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49. lappuse
... hath good skill at her needle , that's certain , " remarked one of her female spectators ; " but did ever a woman , before this brazen hussy , contrive such a way of showing it ! Why , gossips , what is it but to laugh in the faces of ...
... hath good skill at her needle , that's certain , " remarked one of her female spectators ; " but did ever a woman , before this brazen hussy , contrive such a way of showing it ! Why , gossips , what is it but to laugh in the faces of ...
56. lappuse
... hath raised a great scandal , I promise you , in godly Master Dimmesdale's church . " " You say truly , " replied the other ; " I am a stranger , and have been a wanderer , sorely against my will . I have met with grievous mishaps by ...
... hath raised a great scandal , I promise you , in godly Master Dimmesdale's church . " " You say truly , " replied the other ; " I am a stranger , and have been a wanderer , sorely against my will . I have met with grievous mishaps by ...
61. lappuse
... hath granted thee an open ignominy , that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee , and the sorrow with- out . Take heed how thou deniest to him - who , perchance , hath not the courage to grasp it for ...
... hath granted thee an open ignominy , that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee , and the sorrow with- out . Take heed how thou deniest to him - who , perchance , hath not the courage to grasp it for ...
62. lappuse
... hath been gifted with a voice , to second and confirm the counsel which thou hast heard . Speak out the name ! That , and thy repentance , may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast . " " Never , replied Hester Prynne ...
... hath been gifted with a voice , to second and confirm the counsel which thou hast heard . Speak out the name ! That , and thy repentance , may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast . " " Never , replied Hester Prynne ...
65. lappuse
... hath been like a possessed one ; and there lacks little , that I should take in hand to drive Satan out of her with stripes . " The stranger had entered the room with the characteristic quietude of the profession to which he announced ...
... hath been like a possessed one ; and there lacks little , that I should take in hand to drive Satan out of her with stripes . " The stranger had entered the room with the characteristic quietude of the profession to which he announced ...
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142. lappuse - ... another moral interpretation to the things of this world than they had ever borne before. And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two. They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
227. lappuse - ... so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him? Her spirit sank with the idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond betwixt the clergyman and herself.
50. lappuse - It was, in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus hold it up to the public gaze.
43. lappuse - The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
9. lappuse - The new inhabitant- who came himself from a foreign land, or whose father or grandfather came - has little claim to be called a Salemite; he has no conception of the oysterlike tenacity with which an old settler, over whom his third century is creeping, clings to the spot where his successive generations have been embedded.
116. lappuse - When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring, as to possess the character of truths supernaturally revealed.
96. lappuse - I see you here. Look! Look!" Hester looked, by way of humoring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it.
29. lappuse - My eyes fastened themselves upon the old scarlet letter, and would not be turned aside. Certainly, there was some deep meaning in it, most worthy of interpretation, and which, as it were, streamed forth from the mystic symbol, subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind.
23. lappuse - Longfellow's hearthstone; it was time, at length, that I should exercise other faculties of my nature, and nourish myself with food for which I had hitherto had little appetite. Even the old Inspector was desirable, as a change of diet, to a man who had known Alcott.
51. lappuse - Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity...