 In the rear of the procession rode a figure on horseback, so darkly conspicuous, so sternly triumphant, that my hearers mistook him for the visible presence of the fiend himself ; but it was only his good friend, Cotton Mather, proud of his well-won dignity,...  The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Sivu 288tekijä(t) Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 648 sivua
...and trod lightly up the hill. Behind their victims came the afflicted, a guilty and miserable band; villains who had thus avenged themselves on their...track, till their shadowy visages had circled round the hill-top, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper woe, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1899 - 300 sivua
...well-won dignity, as the representative of all the hateful features of his time : the one bloodthirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...track, till their shadowy visages had circled round the hilltop, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper woe, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 592 sivua
...and trod lightly up the hill. Behind their victims came the afflicted, a guilty and miserable band; villains who had thus avenged themselves on their...broken track, till their shadowy visages had circled roimd the hill-top, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 410 sivua
...well-won dignity, as the representative of all the hateful features of his time ; the one bloodthirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...track, till their shadowy visages had circled round the hill-top, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper woe, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1918 - 366 sivua
...well-won dignity, as the representative of all the hateful features of his time ; the one bloodthirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...track, till their shadowy visages had circled round the hill-top, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper woe, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1982 - 1546 sivua
...well won dignity, as the representative of all the hateful features of his time; the one blood-thirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...track, till their shadowy visages had circled round the hill-top, where we stood. I plunged into my imagination for a blacker horror, and a deeper woe, and... | |
 | John McWilliams - 1986 - 284 sivua
...pictured dying on the same day beneath the triumphant gaze of Cotton Mather, "the one blood-thirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...sufficed to madden the whole surrounding multitude" (p. 279). Hawthorne's desire to expose the delusion of witchcraft here overreaches itself, resulting... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - 1986 - 216 sivua
...stern-faced Cotton Mather in whose 'figure on horseback, so darkly conspicuous, so sternly triumphant' 'were concentrated those vices of spirit and errors...sufficed to madden the whole surrounding multitude' (57, 279). Here we see the story-teller in his worst guise, allied with the egocentric mob-rouser,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 sivua
..."Cotton Mather, . . . the representative of all the hateful features of his time; the one bloodthirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...sufficed to madden the whole surrounding multitude." — -"Alice Doane's Appeal" (CE 11:279) 7. These are among the witches whose trials are reported in... | |
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 sivua
...well won dignity, as the representative of all the hateful features of his time; the one blood-thirsty man, in whom were concentrated those vices of spirit...sufficed to madden the whole surrounding multitude. (T&S, 216) "Surely," says Crews, "the bitterness of this paragraph was not inspired by an objective... | |
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