 And, now that life had so much human promise in it, they resolved to go back to their own land ; because the years, after all, have a kind of emptiness, when we spend too many of them on a foreign shore.  Hawthorne's Works - 253. oldalszerző: Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 272 oldal
...won the gentle Hilda's shy affection, and her consent to be his bride. Another hand must henceforth trim the lamp before the Virgin's shrine ; for Hilda...promise in it, they resolved to go back to their own laud ; because the years, after all, have a kind of emptiness,") when we spend too many of them on... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1880 - 280 oldal
...won the gentle Hilda's shy affection, and her consent to be his bride. Another hand must henceforth trim the lamp before the Virgin's shrine ; for Hilda...promise in it, they resolved to go back to their own laud ; because the years, after all, have a kind of emptiness, when we spend too many of them on a... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1892 - 374 oldal
...REHVM M«NA rAMHTET MORIiNTE MOR*— and her consent to be his bride. Another hand must henceforth trim the lamp before the Virgin's shrine ; for Hilda...was coming down from her old tower, to" be herself 1 enshrined and worshipped as a household saint, in the light of her husband's fireside. And, now that... | |
 | Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, David Kirby - 1975 - 248 oldal
...relief only when he leaves his ancestral tower for the crowded market place of Perugia, and Hilda comes "down from her old tower, to be herself enshrined...household Saint, in the light of her husband's fireside" (461). The actions of the fallen innocents, then, seem to imply that the problem of distance can only... | |
 | John McWilliams - 1986 - 284 oldal
...he and Hilda have conceived a changeless village future where all art will be domesticated and Hilda "enshrined and worshipped as a household Saint, in the light of her husband's fireside" (p. 461). It is fitting that the novel's final line, "But Hilda had a hopeful soul, and saw sunlight... | |
 | Peter Gardella - 1985 - 225 oldal
...clothes you as a celestial garment." Hawthorne completed the parallel: Another hand must henceforth trim the lamp before the Virgin's shrine; for Hilda...as a household saint, in the light of her husband's fireside.34 Thus easily did Mary merge into the Romantic vision of marriage. She took her place in... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - 1989 - 316 oldal
...seclusion, he finally securing the living hand of Hilda, who, through the agency of vicarious sin, has come down "from her old tower, to be herself enshrined...household Saint, in the light of her husband's fireside" (IV, 461). Throughout The Marble Faun, except for those chapters in which Miriam and Kenyon display... | |
 | Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 276 oldal
...neither of the marriages that close The Marble Faun can be imagined having an independent aftermath. "Enshrined and worshipped as a household Saint, in the light of her husband's fireside" (1237), Hilda only unfolds the already implicit meaning of Kenyon's marriage. Unhappily, Miriam also... | |
 | Pamela Schirmeister - 1990 - 254 oldal
...Kenyon and an implicit promise that the spectral allegory will be written: Another hand must henceforth trim the lamp before the Virgin's shrine; for Hilda...her old tower to be herself enshrined and worshipped ... in the light of her husband's fireside. . . . Before they quitted Rome, a bridal gift was laid... | |
 | Milton R. Stern - 1991 - 224 oldal
...the Atlantic, of Rome's history, and of the Romance's dramatized human experience. There Hilda will be "herself enshrined and worshipped as a household Saint, in the light of her husband's fireside" (p. 461). Hawthorne's losing struggle with Shirley Temple prefigures the function of America's Darling... | |
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