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id: 512
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  The Bosom Serpent Drowne''s Wooden Image Roger Malvin''s Burial The Artist of the Beautiful FROM MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE THE BIRTHMARK


id: 513
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Miriam and I have a gift to love each other, and we are going among the world''s people, to live after their fashion


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id: 2081
title: The Blithedale Romance
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "He knocks as if he had a right to come in," said Zenobia, laughing. in his glance that Hollingsworth first met Zenobia''s eyes, and began Priscilla,--a pale, large-eyed little woman (for she had gone far "Come hither, Priscilla," said Zenobia. "Mr. Hollingsworth!" said the old man in his hesitating way. Zenobia had the gift of telling a fanciful little story, off-hand, in a With Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla, and myself, it grew to be a birch-tree, I plainly saw Zenobia take the hand of Hollingsworth in "Come, Priscilla," said I, looking her intently in the face, which was Of all possible observers, methought a woman like Zenobia and a man "Come, Priscilla," said Zenobia; "it is time. sat Hollingsworth, with Priscilla at his feet and Zenobia standing "Hollingsworth,--Zenobia,--I have just returned to Blithedale," said I, "Priscilla," said Hollingsworth, "come." Zenobia smiled; possibly I


id: 512
title: Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "Heaven knows your words are too true," said Aylmer, sadly. the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? "That old woman taught me my catechism," said the young man; and there A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the Giovanni beheld her press her hand to her bosom as if her heart were "Give it me!" said Beatrice, extending her hand to receive the little perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered "Now, my love, are not you a most unreasonable little man?" said Mrs. Bullfrog, patting me on the cheek. The pipe was in the old dame''s mouth when she said these words. "Yes, kind mother," said the figure, "with all my heart!" "With all thy heart!" cried the old witch, setting her hands to her thou hast given him that word in his ear," said the old witch.


id: 513
title: The Snow Image
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "Yes, Violet,--yes, my little Peony," said their kind mother, "you may snow, Violet, after laughing heartily at little Peony''s figure, was "You look exactly like a snow-image, Peony," said she, "if your cheeks "Yes," answered Violet; "mamma shall see the new little girl. a little girl could look so much like a flying snow-drift, or how a snow-drift could look so very like a little girl. "Come, you odd little thing!" cried the honest man, seizing her by the enough, the old prophecy is true; and here we have the great man come, turned towards the Great Stone Face, which, like a faithful and long "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were "No!" said Ernest bluntly, "I see little or no likeness." valley, paused to look at the Great Stone Face, imagining that they had As Ernest listened to the poet, he imagined that the Great Stone Face


id: 976
title: Tanglewood Tales
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother over-brimming heart into the king''s hand, poor Theseus knew not what There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand "Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king''s daughter, and his mouth looked like a great red cavern, at the farther end of which "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace." "My little Proserpina," said the king, sitting down, and affectionately When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked "My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone


id: 33
title: The Scarlet Letter
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "Dost thou know me so little, Hester Prynne? sport for her, did little Pearl look into her eyes, and smile. child stood still and gazed at Hester, with that little laughing "Art thou my child, in very truth?" asked Hester. "No, my little Pearl!" said her mother; "thou must gather thine "My poor woman," said the not unkind old minister, "the child "Come up hither, Hester, thou and little Pearl," said the the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, "Minister," said little Pearl, "I can tell thee who he is!" All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, "My little Pearl," said Hester, after a moment''s silence, "the "Dost thou know, child, wherefore thy mother wears this letter?" day, Hester took little Pearl--who was necessarily the companion "Come, my child!" said Hester, looking about her from the spot There stood Hester, holding little Pearl by the hand!


id: 7119
title: The Dolliver Romance
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
txt: ./txt/7119.txt
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  forlorn old age, the Doctor expected soon to stretch out his weary but be anxious about the child, knowing that little Pansie would be far my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken Dolliver, who often awoke from an old man''s fitful sleep with a sense which old Grandsir Dolliver had so strangely crept away. "Ay," said the old man, as the well-remembered figure of his ancient joke upon the old man, had never come back; and now, for seven years, this," said Dr. Dolliver, "he might fancy it his nostrum of long life, he had eschewed strong spirits: "But after seventy," quoth old Dr. Dolliver, "a man is all the better in head and stomach for a little ''The old man''s cordial?'' That promises too little. "Come, Doctor, I know a thing or two," said the Colonel, with a bitter


id: 7881
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day


id: 7878
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  As we left the house, we looked into the dark and squalid dining-room, boat arrived from town, I went into the ferry-house, a small stone passed many old thatched cottages, built of stone, and with what looked the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and hotels, one of which has the look of a good old village inn; and the itself a compact little town, with a market-house, built of the old brick, common to buildings in the city, looks like a time-long stand, the large interior hall saw some old armor hanging on the wall at one end,-went into St. Paul''s, and walked all round the great cathedral, looking, Quiet old English towns, that till within a little time ago great size, but old, and looking as if its tower were built, not for The street looks as old as any that I have seen, except,


id: 9237
title: A Bell''s Biography
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  hours, in the streets,--this very bell sent forth its first-born accents bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a peal from Our Lady''s Chapel of Loudly rang the bell of the wilderness while the streets of echoes died away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady''s Chapel. while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a doleful Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the anew, it will talk like a good English and Protestant bell." So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was to toll the funeral another through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. "Open thy bosom, Mother Earth!" Thus spake the bell. O funeral bell!


id: 9203
title: A Rill from the Town Pump
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  Streets, Salem.]--The Town Pump talking through its nose.) make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose. A hot day, gentlemen! the water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet, and is time these ten years, you know the flavor of cold water. draught from the Town Pump. of the fire-water burst upon the red men, and swept their whole race away For many years it was the watering-place, and, as But, in the course of time, a Town Pump was sunk into the source of the water is as pure and cold as that which slaked the thirst of the red virtues of cold water, too little valued since your father''s days, be mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast The TOWN Pump and the Cow! Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. liquor, to drink--"SUCCESS TO THE TOWN PUMP!"


id: 9208
title: Fancy''s Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales")
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  and visible frame of man set its seal to the evil designs of the soul, in with Mr. Smith, when, through the brilliant medium of his glass of old How kind of Fancy, Memory, and Conscience to visit the old gentleman, picture-box upon the table, with the magnifying-glass convenient to his say, as old Mr. Smith peeped through the magnifying-glass, which made the gentleman''s ear; it is a record merely of sinful thought, which never was face, and strikes a dagger to the heart of Mr. Smith. scene, there was a table set out, with several bottles, and glasses half Mr. Smith and Edward Spencer were heating their young blood with wine, a dagger to the heart of Mr. Smith, and quelled his remonstrance with her venerated old man, in the rich gloom of the crimson-curtained room, with evil deeds, and the villain of actual life, in projecting crimes that


id: 9250
title: A Book of Autographs
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
txt: ./txt/9250.txt
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summary:
  We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and There are several letters from John Adams, written in a small, hasty, nature was adapted to stand in relation to his country, as man stands Another letter from the same famous hand is addressed to General Palmer, Next, we come to the fragment of a letter by Samuel Adams; an autograph From General Warren we have a letter dated January 14, 1775, only a few of these letters, it was a far more formal age than the present. young men, members of the old colonial families,--gentlemen, as John Lincoln was the type of a New England soldier; a man of fair abilities, General Schuyler writes a letter, under date of February 22, 1780, Their letters, therefore, come to us like material things out of the would History be put to the blush by a volume of autograph letters, like


id: 7085
title: Fanshawe
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
txt: ./txt/7085.txt
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  From the time that Ellen entered Dr. Melmoth''s habitation, the sunny days Edward Walcott and Ellen rose higher as they rode on; and their way was "Your ride is unusually long to-day, Fanshawe," observed Edward Walcott. Edward Walcott, eluding Fanshawe''s observation with little difficulty, Ellen Langton, on her return from her walk, found Dr. Melmoth''s little He said no more; and, as Ellen did not reply, they reached the house, and "Nay, that is a hard word to bestow on your old comrade," said Hugh acquaintance with Ellen Langton, he had rarely entered Hugh Crombie''s "But methinks their anxiety was not of long continuance," observed Dr. Melmoth, looking at the wine, and remembering the song that his entrance Scarcely a word had passed between Dr. Melmoth and Ellen Langton, on "Stay, young man," said the stranger, placing himself full in Edward''s way


id: 7372
title: Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  "No, Septimius, content with heaven at last," said Rose, who had come out "Nephew Septimius," said the old woman, "you began this meal to-day without "That sounds good, Septimius," said the old lady. "I know not whether they are coming or no, Rose," said Septimius, stopping that is a pity," said the young man; and yet Septimius thought that Septimius thought of what the young man, in his last moments, had said of "No young man ever had such a girl, I am sure," said Septimius; "so sweet, "Nothing," said Rose Garfield, "except what comes to a good many young men "I mean those many good and sweet young girls," said Septimius, "who would "It is very strange," said Septimius, "but I fear I shall be a good deal "My Aunt Keziah should meet you there, doctor," said Septimius. "Septimius," said Sibyl, who looked strangely beautiful, as if the drink,


id: 8090
title: Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  seem little likely to be, twenty years hence), and a similar one of Great stands St. John''s School-House, a picturesque old edifice of stone, with as from a life apart, a few old men are generally to be seen, wrapped in the garden, into which its old windows look, has probably put off a great Not far from the market-place of Warwick stands the great church of St. Mary''s: a vast edifice, indeed, and almost worthy to be a cathedral. not crept into these antiquated English towns, and so people grow old though, like the hotels of most old English towns, it had a musty the great old Minster has fair room to sit, looking down on the ancient site of some stately and queer old houses, and of many mean little a two-story, red-stone, thatched house, looking old, but by no means refined and cultivated American looks at the Old Country, the things that


id: 8429
title: The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) Outlines of an English Romance
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  Middleton, who is the American descendant of an old English family, as Middleton had felt impelled to disclose to the old man the object of his "I suppose," said he to the old man, "the settlers in my country may have "So," said the old man, smiling gravely, "you have thought fit, at last, intercourse, between Middleton and this old man, which was followed up in Middleton entered, the old gentleman looked at him with a stern, fixed Middleton, were really a branch of the English family of Eldredge, or "The nature of the secret," said Middleton, smiling, "was not likely to "We are friends, then?" said Mr. Eldredge, looking keenly at Middleton, "As I said in our meeting in your park, Mr. Eldredge," replied Middleton, Middleton shall tell him what he knows of his past character and life, Middleton has been directed to this old man by a friend in


id: 13707
title: Twice Told Tales
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  old man and woman, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired from head Dorothy set forth, each holding a hand of little Ilbrahim, like two what to dread; the old man, on the other hand, stood up erect, and his "Catharine, blessed woman," exclaimed the old man, "art thou come to The old man generally shakes hands and has a little chat "Strayed from her home, a LITTLE GIRL of five years old, in a blue ends of the earth?" cried the old woman, peering into the lady''s face. House that it seemed as if all the old governors and great men were upon the great street of the town, while the sun looked in at his old "Why," said the old man, deepening the grin of a death''s-head on which sick old man like me?" And then his poor soul crept away and left the


id: 39716
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife''s face and recognized the "I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times He pointed to an old man, shabbily dressed, with long white hair, thin Ethan Brand''s eye quailed beneath the old man''s. always in his mind, whenever he looked upon the Great Stone Face. a little old man, with a skin as yellow as if his own Midas-hand had "The very image of the Great Stone Face!" shouted the people. enough, the old prophecy is true; and here we have the great man come, the Great Stone Face for years before, now spent their time in gazing at towards the Great Stone Face, which, like a faithful and long-remembered "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were Great Stone Face, imagining that they had seen its likeness in a human


id: 35377
title: A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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  The young man came to the palace, and found the king sitting upon his "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the Gray the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things came "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "Hear him, Periwinkle, trying to talk like a grown man!" said Primrose. "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child closer lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace."


