 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1800 - 266 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism iu Curtius to precipitate himself there, in advance ; for all Home, you see, has been swallowed up... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...daintily, not to break through the crust at any moment. By-andby, we inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism in Curtius to precipitate himself... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 308 oldal
...will serve; and we must step very daintily, not to break through the crust at any moment. By-and-by, we inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism...for all Rome, you see, has been swallowed up in that VOL. n. 20 gulf, in spite of him. The Palace of the Caesars has gone down thither, with a hollow, rumbling... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...daintily, not to break through the crust at any moment. By-and-by, we inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism in Curtius to precipitate himself... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1880 - 268 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...Rome, you see, has been swallowed up in that gulf, iu spite of him. The Palace of the Caesars has gone down thither, with a hollow, rumbling sound of... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 560 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism in Cm-tins to precipitate himself there, in advance ; for all Rome, you see, has been swallowed up in... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1897 - 534 oldal
...over it, with just reality enough to bear I . up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...step very daintily, not to break through the crust at ^x any moment. By and by, we inevitably sink ! It was a foolish piece of heroism in Curtius to precipitate... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...Curtius to precipitate himself there, in advance; for 142 all Rome, you see, has been swallowed up in that gulf, in spite of him. The Palace of the Caesars... | |
 | Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, David Kirby - 1975 - 248 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...daintily, not to break through the crust, at any moment" (161162). From Miriam's Conradian perspective, human life seems permeated by an artificiality which... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 oldal
...spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm. A footstep,...daintily, not to break through the crust, at any moment. By-and-by, we inevitably sink! It was a foolish piece of heroism in Curtius to precipitate himself... | |
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The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere. The firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which... 
