 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Psychology - 1866 - 344 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything, rather than Adulteress." Here is the germ of the whole pathos and terror of "The Scarlet Letter"; but it is hardly noted in... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 288 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable,...from any of these evidences of iniquity, that the ti.nes of the Puritans were more vicious than our own, when, as we pass along the very street of this... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...embroid/red the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable,...Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these ^fidences of iniquity, that the times of the Puritans were more vicious than our own, when, as we pass... | |
 | 1882 - 548 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean A.dmirable,...Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these eviI dences of iniquity, that the times of the Puritans were more vicious than our own, when, as we... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1883 - 656 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needle-work ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." When this story appeared, Miss EP Peabody remarked to a friend : " We shall hear of that letter by... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Legends - 1888 - 500 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." Mr. Hawthorne tells us that he found the missive from which this incident is drawn, and which subsequently... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Legends - 1884 - 500 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." following whom in his inimitable monologue on the South Sea House, which forms the initial chapter... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adultery - 1883 - 630 pages
...embroidered the fauil token iu scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needle-work ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." When this story appeared, Miss EP Peabody remarked to a friend : u We ihall hear of that letter by... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 624 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needle-work; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." When this story appeared, Miss EP Peabody remarked to a friend : " We shall hear of that letter by... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Children - 1884 - 500 pages
...embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." Mr. Hawthorne tells us that he found the missive from which this incident is drawn, and which subsequently... | |
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... breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden... 
