| 1908 - 606 pages
...their sad and passionate talk with the melancholy murmur of the brook. How deeply they had known each other then! .And was this the man? She hardly knew...worldly position, and still more so in that far vista in his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him! Her spirit sank with the idea that... | |
| Henry James - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 524 pages
...their sad and passionate talk with the melancholy murmur of the brook. How deeply had they known each other then! And was this the man? She hardly knew...worldly position, and still more so in that far vista in his unsympathising thoughts, through which she now beheld him! Her spirit sank with the idea that... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fiction - 1992 - 234 pages
...their sad and passionate talk with the melancholy murmur of the brook. How deeply had they known each other then! And was this the man? She hardly knew...position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathising thoughts, through which she now beheld him! Her spirit sank with the idea that all must... | |
| T. Walter Herbert - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 360 pages
...consummate his career, Hester becomes miserably aware of the gulf that stands between them: Dimmesdale seems "so unattainable in his worldly position, and still...in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts" (CE 1:239). Dimmesdale's prospective worldly triumph will be fueled by the emotional energies awakened... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fiction - 2001 - 224 pages
...their sad and passionate talk with the melancholy murmur of the brook. How deeply had they known each other then! And was this the man? She hardly knew...the rich music, with the procession of majestic and ven195 érable fathers; he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far... | |
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