Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to his own pathos, and compare it to my emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife, just after writing it — tried to read it rather, for my voice swelled... Americans - Page 143by Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry James - 1879 - 206 pages
...this passage, to an allusion in the English Note-Books (September 14, 1855). "Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to his own pathos, and compare it to my emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife, just after writing it —... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 628 pages
...by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm." Nor was it only while in the act of composition with the pen that his fictions thus occupied all his... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 626 pages
...by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm." Nor was it only while in the act of composition with the pen that his fictions thus occupied all his... | |
| 1883 - 624 pages
...by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm." Nor was it only while in the act of composition with the pen that his fictions thus occupied all his... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 330 pages
...by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...I read the last scene of ' The Scarlet Letter ' to iny wife, just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice swelled and heaved, as if... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 616 pages
...shown by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — "Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...it with my emotions when I read the last scene of 4 The Scarlet Letter' to my wife, just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 656 pages
...by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...it with my emotions when I read the last scene of 4 The Scarlet Letter' to my wife, just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...work, and, when it was finished, read the conclusion to his wife, or, as he says, "tried to read it, for my voice swelled and heaved as if I were tossed...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm. It broke her heart, and sent her to bed with a grievous headache, — which I look upon as a triumphant... | |
| 1887 - 732 pages
...wife, just after writing it — tried to read it rather, for his voice swelled and heaved, as if he were tossed up and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm. As to the fondness for allegory, Edgar Poe declares in a contemporary criticism that he is infinitely... | |
| William Leonard Courtney - 1888 - 312 pages
...wife, just after writing it — tried to read it rather, for bis voice swelled and heaved, as if he were tossed up and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm. As to the fondness for allegory, Edgar Poe declares in a contemporary criticism that he is infinitely... | |
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