The Scarlet Letter, 1. sējumsG. Routledge, 1852 - 288 lappuses |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 35.
30. lappuse
... passion that influenced the cha- racters who figure in it , I have invariably confined myself within the limits of the old Surveyor's half a dozen sheets of foolscap . On the contrary , I have allowed myself , as to such points , nearly ...
... passion that influenced the cha- racters who figure in it , I have invariably confined myself within the limits of the old Surveyor's half a dozen sheets of foolscap . On the contrary , I have allowed myself , as to such points , nearly ...
32. lappuse
... passion nor the tenderness of sentiment , but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses , and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance . " What have you to do with us ? " that expression seemed to say ...
... passion nor the tenderness of sentiment , but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses , and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defiance . " What have you to do with us ? " that expression seemed to say ...
52. lappuse
... passionate nature , she had for- tified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely , wreaking itself in every variety of insult ; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the ...
... passionate nature , she had for- tified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely , wreaking itself in every variety of insult ; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the ...
59. lappuse
... passion , and anguish . " Hester Prynne , " said the clergyman , " I have striven with my young brother here , under whose preaching of the word you have been privileged to sit , " - here Mr. Wilson laid his hand on the shoulder of a ...
... passion , and anguish . " Hester Prynne , " said the clergyman , " I have striven with my young brother here , under whose preaching of the word you have been privileged to sit , " - here Mr. Wilson laid his hand on the shoulder of a ...
66. lappuse
... passion , like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea . " He presented the cup to Hester , who received it with a slow , earnest look into his face ; not precisely a look of fear , yet full of doubt and questioning , as to what ...
... passion , like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea . " He presented the cup to Hester , who received it with a slow , earnest look into his face ; not precisely a look of fear , yet full of doubt and questioning , as to what ...
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Ann Hutchinson answered Hester Art thou Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld beneath bosom breast breath brook brought character cheek child clergyman cried Custom-House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale's Dost thou earth earthly England evil eyes face fancy father felt forest gaze gleam Governor Bellingham grave hand hath heart Hester Prynne hither human ignominy imagination impulse infant kind King's Chapel knew laughed light likewise little Pearl look magistrates man's market-place mind minister minister's Mistress Hibbins moral murmur nature never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passed passion pathies perchance personage physician pillory poor Prynne's Puritan racter recognised Reverend Roger Chilling scaffold scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame sinful smile solemn sorrow soul speak spirit step stood strange sunshine Surveyor sympathy talk thee thou hast thought token torture town tremulous truth voice whispered wild Wilt thou woman yonder young
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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...