 When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened with the smoke of unnumbered years, and made still blacker by the grim prints of Puritan ministers that hung around. These worthies looked strangely like bad angels — or, at least, like men who had...  Magazine of Western History - Sivu 5101888Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1866 - 662 sivua
...to watch the Assyrian dawn and the Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill. When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened...continually and so sternly with the devil, that somewhat of a sooty fierceness had been imparted to their own visages. They had all vanished now : a cheerful coat... | |
 | 1851 - 588 sivua
...watch the Assyrian dawn and the I'aphian suuset and moonrise, from the summit of our eastern hill. When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened...smoke of unnumbered years, and made still blacker bv the grim prints of puritan ministers tliat hung around. These worthies looked strangely like bad... | |
 | January Searle - 1855 - 94 sivua
...hiJl." He then describes the study of the old house :—" When I first saw the room," he says, " the walls were blackened with the smoke of unnumbered...least like men who had wrestled so continually and 10 sternly with the devil that somewhat of his sooty fierceness had been imparted to their own visages.... | |
 | 1866 - 642 sivua
...to watch the Assyrian dawn and the Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill. When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened...years, and made still blacker by the grim prints of Purititt ministers that hung around. These worthies looked strangely like. bad angels, or at least... | |
 | 1866 - 652 sivua
...Assyrian dawn and the Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill. When Ilirst saw the room, its walls were blackened with the smoke...of unnumbered years, and made still blacker by the grim'prints of Puritan ministers that hung around. These worthies looked strangely like bad angels,... | |
 | 1868 - 548 sivua
...sunshine !" The Puritan ministers, grim prints of whom adorned the walls of " the old manse " study, " looked strangely like bad angels, or at least, like...fierceness had been imparted to their own visages." How true a Yankee touch is this ! When one little fellow warns a poor Italian boy that he had better... | |
 | 1868 - 978 sivua
...sunshine ! '1 The Puritan | ministers, grim prints of whom adorned the walls of "the old manse1' study, "looked strangely like bad angels, or, at least, like...fierceness had been imparted to their own visages." How true a Yankee touch is this ! When one little fellow warns a poor Italian boy that he had better... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 580 sivua
...used to watch the Assyrian dawn and Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill. When I first saw the room its walls were blackened...of unnumbered years, and made still blacker by the grimT prints of Puritan ministers that hung around. These / worthies looked strangely like bad angels,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sivua
...what had once been so admirable a breed of fowls.' Of his secluded study in the Old Manse he says: 4 When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened...with the smoke of unnumbered years, and made still blncker by the grim prints of Puritan ministers that hung around. These worthies looked strangely like... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 sivua
...to watch the Assyrian dawn and the Paphian sunset and moonrise from the summit of our eastern hill. When I first saw the room, its walls were blackened...fierceness had been imparted to their own visages." Hawthorne lived at Concord four years, a period of ripened manhood and deepened character. He was then... | |
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