The Scarlet Letter: A RomanceWorthington Company, 1892 - 292 pages |
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Ann Hutchinson answered Hester Art thou Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld beneath bosom breast brook brought character child clergyman cried Custom-House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale's Dost thou earth earthly embroidered England evil eyes face fancy father felt forest gaze gleam Governor Bellingham grave gray guilty hand hath head heart heaven Hester Prynne hither human ignominy imagine impulse infant kind King's Chapel knew light likewise little Pearl look magistrates man's market-place ment mind minister minister's Mistress Hibbins moral murmur nature ness never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passed passion personage physician pillory poor portunities Prynne's Puritan Reverend Roger Chil scaffold scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame sinful smile solemn sorrow soul speak spirit step stern stood strange sunshine Surveyor sympathy thee thought tion token torture town tremulous truth voice whispered wild Wilt thou woman yonder young
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Page 51 - Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature or the other.
Page 285 - No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Page 15 - Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect which will last longer, it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many.
Page 66 - ... built the first prisonhouse, somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old church-yard of King's Chapel. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect...
Page 338 - The law we broke! — the sin here so awfully revealed ! — let these alone be in thy thoughts ! I fear ! I fear ! It may be, that, when we forgot our God, — when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul, — it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.
Page 205 - But what shall we say, when an individual discovers a revelation addressed to himself alone, on the same vast sheet of record! In such a case, it could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state, when a man, rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long, intense, and secret pain, had extended his egotism over the whole expanse of nature, until the firmament itself should appear no more than a fitting page for his soul's history and fate...
Page 45 - I experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron.
Page 76 - There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature, — whatever be the delinquencies of the individual, — no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame, as it was the essence of this punishment to do.
Page 246 - All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed jintent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook ; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of a pool.
Page 251 - In such life as has been mine these seven years past ! And thou, Arthur Dimmesdale, dost thou yet live ?" It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet, in the dim wood, that it was like the first encounter, in the world beyond the grave, of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering, in mutual dread; as not yet familiar with their state, nor...