...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 —...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...