| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 446 σελίδες
...a brief season of excitement, kindled by love. It rendered him a genius for that one occasion, but, quenched in disappointment, left him again the mechanical...wrought the admirable figure of the mysterious lady, ban when he perpetrated a whole progeny of blockheads ? There was a rumor in Boston, about this period,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 472 σελίδες
...his own hands had wrought. Yet who can doubt, that the very highest Ktulo to which a human •pint can attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest...wrought the admirable figure of the mysterious lady, rben he perpetrated a whole progeny of blockheads ? There was a rumor in Boston, about this period,... | |
| 1851 - 334 σελίδες
...again the mechanical earver in wood, without the power even of appreciating the work that his owп hands had wrought. Yet who can doubt, that the very...wrought the admirable figure of the mysterious lady, thai! when he perpetrated a whole progeny of blockheads ? There was a rumor in Boston, about this period,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 596 σελίδες
...a brief season of excitement, kindled by love. It rendered him a genius for that one occasion, but, quenched in disappointment, left him again the mechanical...was more consistent with himself when he wrought the admirab e figure of the mysterious lady, -than when he perpetrated a whole progeny of blockheads ?... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 556 σελίδες
...a brief season of excitement, kindled by love. It rendered him a genius for that one occasion, but, quenched in disappointment, left him again the mechanical...attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest aud most natural state, and that Drowne was more consistent with himself when he wrought the admirable... | |
| Alma Blount - 1914 - 406 σελίδες
...out his natural self in living his best self? Compare Hawthorne's tale called Browne's Wooden Image: "Yet, who can doubt that the very highest state to...aspirations, is its truest and most natural state." i With this paragraph compare Lowell's: 'Tis Heaven alone that is given away, "Pis only God may be... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 316 σελίδες
...did he perform ; but Hawthorne draws the moral that " the very highest state to which a human being can attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest and most natural state." Young Goodman Brown deals, like The Minister's Black Veil and The Scarlet Letter, with the problem... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 σελίδες
...did he perform ; but Hawthorne draws the moral that " the very highest state to which a human being can attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest and most natural state." Young Goodman Brown deals, like Tlie Minister's Slack Veil and Tlie Scarlet Letter, with the problem... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 650 σελίδες
...brief season of excitement, kindled by love. It rendered him a genius for that one occasion, but, so quenched in disappointment, left him again the mechanical...that Drow-ne was more consistent with himself when he эо wrought the admirable figure of the mysterious lady than when he perpetrated a whole progeny of... | |
| 1893 - 268 σελίδες
...refines the taste of pleasure, and opens innumerable sources of intellectual enjoyment." — Robert Hall. "Who can doubt that the very highest state to which...aspirations, is its truest and most natural state." — Hawthorne. "There may be wisdom without knowledge, and there may be knowledge without wisdom. But... | |
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