...anything betler than to be ridiculous. It was such an awful joke, that she should have resolved — in all sincerity, no doubt — to make herself the greatest,...work on her strong, heavy, unpliable, and, in many respec.s, defective and evil nature, and adorned it with a mosaic of admirable qualities, such as she...

...thing better than to be ridiculous. It was such an awful joke, that she should have resolved — in all sincerity, no doubt — to make herself the greatest)...best woman of the age. And to that end she set to v/ork on her strong, heavy, unpliable, and, in many respects, defective and evil nature, and adorned...

...attempts to revolutionize herself. It was such an awful joke, that she should have resolved — in all sincerity, no doubt — to make herself the greatest,...and, in many respects defective and evil nature, and axlorned it with a mosaic of admirable qualities, such as she chose to possess; putting in here a splendid...

...Cowley, ed., The Portable Hawthorne, 659. Hawthorne says of Fuller: "She set to work on her strange, heavy, unpliable, and in many respects, defective...and adorned it with a mosaic of admirable qualities. . . . She took credit to herself for having been her own Redeemer, if not her own Creator; and, indeed,...

...... she was a great humbug ... she had stuck herself full of borrowed qualities ... she set herself to work on her strong, heavy, unpliable and, in many respects, defective and evil nature . . . but . . . she could not recreate or refme it.341 By basing the person of Zenobia in Blithedale...

...is definitely a bad idea). Not content with simply criticizing her writing, Mr. Hawthorne describes her "strong, heavy, unpliable, and in many respects, defective and evil nature ... a strong and coarse nature . . . a great humbug. " He even said it was fortunate that she sj her...