Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches ; The Old Manse and a Few MossesHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 187 страници |
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40 cents admiration AMBITIOUS GUEST apples aspect beautiful beheld beneath better Book of Chronicles breath bright Captain Hunnewell Carbuncle carver cloud Copley cottage countenance cried Crystal Hills deep Dickon door Drowne Drowne's wooden earth Ernest eyes Feathertop felt figure fire flowers Gathergold gaze glance gleam glow Goat Island gold Gookin guest hand happy Hawthorne Hawthorne's head heard heart hope human Indian kindled lake light linen looked Marble Faun Matthew mind mist Mother Rigby Mount Defiance Mount Washington mountain NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature ness never Niagara night Notch Old Manse Old Stony Phiz pipe poet Polly precipice pretty prophecy puff river rock scarecrow scene seemed seen side Sketches smile smoke Stone Face stood story strange stranger sunshine Tanglewood Tales thee things thither thou thought tion trees truth turned Twice-Told Tales valley visage whiff White Mountains whole wood wooden image young
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Страница 24 - ... tranquil and familiar majesty, as if he had been talking with the angels as his daily friends. Whether it were sage, statesman, or philanthropist, Ernest received these visitors with the gentle sincerity that had characterized him from boyhood, and spoke freely with them of whatever came uppermost, or lay deepest in his heart or their own. While they talked together, his face would kindle, unawares, and shine upon them, as with a mild evening light.
Страница 24 - Thus the world assumed another and a better aspect from the hour that the poet blessed it with his happy eyes. The Creator had bestowed him, as the last best touch to his own handiwork. Creation was not finished till the poet came to interpret, and so complete it.
Страница 23 - Then so much the worse for the Great Stone Face ! " answered his neighbor ; and again he set up a shout for Old Stony Phiz. But Ernest turned* away, melancholy, and almost despondent ; for this was the saddest of his disappointments, to behold a man who might have fulfilled the prophecy, and had not willed to do so. Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches, swept past him, with the vociferous crowd in the rear, leaving the dust to settle down, and the Great Stone Face to...
Страница 33 - Others could give them pleasure and amusement or instruction — these could be picked up anywhere ; but it was for me to give them rest — rest in a life of trouble.
Страница 19 - ... wondrous man ; and when his tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success — when it had been heard in halls of state, and in the courts of princes and potentates — after it had made him known all over the world, even as a voice crying from shore to shore, — it finally persuaded his countrymen to select him for the presidency. Before this time — indeed, as soon as he began to grow celebrated — his admirers...
Страница 19 - He uttered truths that wrought upon and moulded the lives of those who heard him. His auditors, it may be, never suspected that Ernest, their own neighbor and familiar friend, was more than an ordinary man; least of all did Ernest himself suspect it; but, inevitably as the murmur of a rivulet, came thoughts out of his mouth that no other human lips had spoken.
Страница 26 - ... at his labor in the fields ; angels seemed to have sat with him by the fireside ; and, dwelling with angels as friend with friends, he had imbibed the sublimity of their ideas, and imbued it with the sweet and lowly charm of household words. So thought the poet. And Ernest, on the other hand, was moved and agitated by the...
Страница 11 - While the boy was still gazing up the valley, and fancying, as he always did, that the Great Stone Face returned his gaze and looked kindly at him, the rumbling of wheels was heard, approaching swiftly along the winding road. " Here he comes ! " cried a group of people who were assembled to witness the arrival. " Here comes the great Mr. Gathergold!
Страница 24 - ... bountiful Providence had granted a new poet to this earth. He, likewise, was a native of the valley, but had spent the greater part of his life at a distance from that romantic region, pouring out his sweet music amid the bustle and din of cities. Often, however, did the mountains which had been familiar to him in his childhood lift their snowy peaks into the clear atmosphere of his poetry.
Страница 14 - ... that a native-born son of the valley, many years before, had enlisted as a soldier, and, after a great deal of hard fighting, had now become an illustrious commander. Whatever he may be called in history, he was known in camps and on the battle-field under the nickname of Old Bloodand-Thunder.