The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale RomanceHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 600 oldal |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
answered appeared Arthur Dimmesdale asked beautiful beheld beneath Blithedale Blithedale Romance bosom breast breath brook Brook Farm brought character child clergyman Coverdale cried Custom House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale Dimmesdale's dream earth evil eyes face fancy feel felt fling forest gazing girl gleam hand hath head heart Hester Prynne hither Hollingsworth human imagine kind knew laugh light likewise little Pearl look Margaret Fuller matter ment Miles Coverdale mind minister Moodie moral mother mysterious nature ness never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passed passion perhaps physician poor Priscilla Puritan replied Reverend scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame Silas Foster smile soul speak spirit stood strange sunshine sympathy tell thee thing thou thought tion tom House trees truth utterance Veiled Lady voice whispered whole wild wilt window woman wonder words young Zeno Zenobia
Népszerű szakaszok
68. oldal - Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
73. oldal - On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting...
241. oldal - And be the stern and sad truth spoken, that the breach which guilt has once made into the human soul is never, in this mortal state, repaired.
25. oldal - A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life, what mode of glorifying God or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, may that be ? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler ! " Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time!
303. oldal - Hush, Hester, hush!" said he with tremulous solemnity. "The law we broke ! — the sin here so awfully revealed! — let these alone be in thy thoughts! I fear! I fear! It may be that, when we forgot our God, — when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul, — it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.
189. oldal - 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...
177. oldal - To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,— it is impalpable,— it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself, in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or indeed ceases to exist.
295. oldal - His subject, it appeared, had been the relation between the Deity and the communities of mankind, with a special reference to the New England which they were here planting in the wilderness. And, as he drew towards the close, a spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained ; only with this difference, that, whereas the Jewish seers had denounced judgments and ruin on their country, it was his mission to foretell...
113. oldal - How strange, indeed! Man had marked this woman's sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child...
109. oldal - She was patient, — a martyr, indeed, — but she forebore to pray for her enemies ; lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.