The House of Seven Gables: A Romance1910 - 298 pages |
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... Jaffrey ° ! " muttered the maiden lady , as she drew back , after cautiously thrusting out her head , and looking up and down the street . " Take it as you like ! - You have seen my little shop - window ! 50 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
... Jaffrey ° ! " muttered the maiden lady , as she drew back , after cautiously thrusting out her head , and looking up and down the street . " Take it as you like ! - You have seen my little shop - window ! 50 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.
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... Jaffrey Pyncheon smile as he will , there is that look beneath ! 35 Put on him a skull - cap , and a band , and a black cloak , and a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other , then let Jaffrey smile as he might , nobody would doubt ...
... Jaffrey Pyncheon smile as he will , there is that look beneath ! 35 Put on him a skull - cap , and a band , and a black cloak , and a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other , then let Jaffrey smile as he might , nobody would doubt ...
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... Jaffrey is thought to have a very pleasant smile ! " 66 10 " And so he has ! " replied Uncle Venner . " And that's rather remarkable in a Pyncheon ; for , begging your pardon , 15 Miss Hepzibah , they never had the name of being an easy ...
... Jaffrey is thought to have a very pleasant smile ! " 66 10 " And so he has ! " replied Uncle Venner . " And that's rather remarkable in a Pyncheon ; for , begging your pardon , 15 Miss Hepzibah , they never had the name of being an easy ...
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... Jaffrey , " answered Phoebe . " And yet I seem to have heard the name of Clifford Pyncheon . Yes ! from my father , or my mother ; but has he not been a long while dead ? " " Well , well , child , perhaps he has ! " said Hepzibah , with ...
... Jaffrey , " answered Phoebe . " And yet I seem to have heard the name of Clifford Pyncheon . Yes ! from my father , or my mother ; but has he not been a long while dead ? " " Well , well , child , perhaps he has ! " said Hepzibah , with ...
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... Jaffrey Pyn- cheon , and you shall find him true , to the heart's core ! " - - - There " In the name of Heaven , " cried Hepzibah , provoked only to intenser indignation by this out - gush of the inestimable tender- ness of a stern ...
... Jaffrey Pyn- cheon , and you shall find him true , to the heart's core ! " - - - There " In the name of Heaven , " cried Hepzibah , provoked only to intenser indignation by this out - gush of the inestimable tender- ness of a stern ...
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Æneid Alice Pyncheon appeared arched window artist author's beautiful behold better Blithedale Romance breath Brook Farm carpenter chair character cheon child Clif Colonel Pyncheon countenance Cousin Hepzibah cried daguerreotype daguerreotypist dark dead dear death door dream Edited England English eyes face fancied father feel figure flowers garden gaze gentleman girl guest hand happy harpsichord Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Hepzibah and Clifford Holgrave hour human Jim Crow Judge Pyncheon judge's kind lady look man's Marble Faun Matthew Maule Maule's mind Miss Hepzibah morning Nathaniel Hawthorne nature never old house Old Manse once parlor passed perhaps person Phoebe Phoebe's picture pleasant Poems poor Hepzibah possessed Puritan Pyncheon-elm Pyncheon-house Salem scowl secret seemed Seven Gables shadow smile spirit stood story strange street sunshine things thought tion truth turned Twice-Told Tales Uncle Venner voice Waldo County whole wizard woman young
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Page 1 - The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience.
Page 1 - It is a legend, prolonging itself from an epoch now gray in the distance, down into our own broad daylight, and bringing along with it some of its legendary mist, which the reader, according to his pleasure, may either disregard, or allow it to float almost imperceptibly about the characters and events, for the sake of a picturesque effect.
Page 1 - ... the truth of the human heart — has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation.
Page 2 - Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral, the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief...
Page 2 - The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod, — or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly, — thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.
Page i - Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal. Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Macaulay's Essay on Hastings.
Page 1 - When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assune had he professed to be writing a novel.
Page 2 - ... the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them, until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms.
Page 36 - Nevertheless, if we look through all the heroic fortunes of mankind, we shall find this same entanglement of something mean and trivial with whatever is noblest in joy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and mud. And, without all the deeper trust in a comprehensive sympathy above us, we might hence be led to suspect the insult of a sneer, as well as an immitigable frown, on the iron countenance of fate.
Page 3 - Romance, having a great deal more to do with the clouds overhead than with any portion of the actual soil of the County of Essex.