The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Volume 10: American FictionEdgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Francis Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1917 |
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الصفحة iv
... Perhaps it was the ancient Puritanism of the region - Lowell said it was " all pulpit when I was growing up " -perhaps it was the academic strain in the Concord and Cambridge writers ; but for some reason prose fiction plays a small ...
... Perhaps it was the ancient Puritanism of the region - Lowell said it was " all pulpit when I was growing up " -perhaps it was the academic strain in the Concord and Cambridge writers ; but for some reason prose fiction plays a small ...
الصفحة xx
... perhaps a little self - conscious ; -pains have been taken with their dressing , -it is not the careless inevitable grace of Thackeray , but it is a finished grace of their own . It is a style exquisitely simple , except in those ...
... perhaps a little self - conscious ; -pains have been taken with their dressing , -it is not the careless inevitable grace of Thackeray , but it is a finished grace of their own . It is a style exquisitely simple , except in those ...
الصفحة xxi
... Perhaps he would not have allowed us to talk of the American classics . American literature is too nearly contemporary : Time has not tried it . But , if America possesses a classic author ( and I am not denying that she may have ...
... Perhaps he would not have allowed us to talk of the American classics . American literature is too nearly contemporary : Time has not tried it . But , if America possesses a classic author ( and I am not denying that she may have ...
الصفحة xxii
... ruddily and robustly human . Perhaps , even in " The Scarlet Letter , " we feel too distinctly that certain characters are moral conceptions , not warmed and wakened out of the allegorical into the real xxii CRITICISMS AND INTERPRETATIONS.
... ruddily and robustly human . Perhaps , even in " The Scarlet Letter , " we feel too distinctly that certain characters are moral conceptions , not warmed and wakened out of the allegorical into the real xxii CRITICISMS AND INTERPRETATIONS.
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... perhaps , a bark or brig , half - way down its melancholy length , discharging hides ; or , nearer at hand , a Nova Scotia schooner , pitching out her cargo of firewood- at the head , I say , of this dilapidated wharf , which the tide ...
... perhaps , a bark or brig , half - way down its melancholy length , discharging hides ; or , nearer at hand , a Nova Scotia schooner , pitching out her cargo of firewood- at the head , I say , of this dilapidated wharf , which the tide ...
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answered Arthur Dimmesdale asked Beatrice beauty beheld beneath bosom breast breath brook brought character child clergyman cried Custom-House dark deep Dimmesdale's door Dupin Edgar Allan Poe EDWARD EVERETT HALE evil eyes face fancy father felt flowers forest frog gaze Giovanni gleam hand hath head heard heart HENRY SEIDEL CANBY Hester Prynne human Ichabod Ichabod Crane imagination infant kind knew laugh little Pearl looked ment mind minister moral mother Mother Shipton nature never night Nolan Oakhurst old Roger Chillingworth once passed passion perhaps physician poor Puritan Rappaccini RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER Reverend Rip Van Winkle Roaring Camp scarlet letter scene seemed seen shadow side Sleepy Hollow smile Smily soul speak spirit stood story strange Stumpy sunshine sympathy talk tell thee thing thou thought took trees truth turned voice whole wild window Winkle woman young
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الصفحة 211 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live, thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
الصفحة xviii - Of fruits and flowers and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes As are the tiger-moth's deep-damasked wings ; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings.
الصفحة 214 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
الصفحة 359 - He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. Smiley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do 'most anything — and I believe him. Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor — Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog — and sing out "Flies, Dan'l, flies!
الصفحة 359 - Frenchman, but it warn't no use— he couldn't budge; he was planted as solid as a church, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out. Smiley was a good deal surprised, and he was disgusted too, but he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course. The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door, he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder— so— at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate, "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog...
الصفحة 359 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says : " Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
الصفحة 393 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
الصفحة 232 - Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those everything was snug, happy and well-conditioned.
الصفحة 245 - Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land. In the dead hush of midnight, he could even hear the barking of the watch-dog from the opposite shore of the Hudson ; but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faithful companion of man.
الصفحة 270 - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.