On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery round some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart. The Snow Image and Other Twice-told Tales - Page 211by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 638 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. Uu they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...heart. On swept the tumult, and left a silent street bchind. * * • * * " Well, Robin, are you dreaming ? " inquired the geutleman, laying his hand ou... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 656 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On ' they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...dreaming ? " inquired the gentleman, laying his hand on t lie youth's shoulder. Robin started, and withdrew his arm from the stone post to which he had instinctively... | |
| 1883 - 664 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...the tumult, and left a silent street behind. "Well. Kobin. are you dreaming?" inquired the gentleman, laying his hand on the youth's shoulder. Robin started,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 656 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...swept the tumult, and left a silent street behind. _^ \ " Well, Robin, are you dreaming ? " inquired the gentleman, laying his hand on the youth's shoulder.... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1982 - 1546 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...the stone post, to which he had instinctively clung, while the living stream rolled by him. His cheek was somewhat pale, and his eye not quite so lively... | |
| Joyce A. Rowe - 1988 - 172 pages
...Kinsman, Major Molineux": The Several Voices of Independence On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart. The fundamental analogy between the forces that shape individual being and those that move history... | |
| George Dekker - 1990 - 392 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...swept the tumult, and left a silent street behind. (p. 230) Not Scott himself in the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte ever denounced revolutionary mob violence... | |
| James S. Hans - 1991 - 260 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling...swept the tumult, and left a silent street behind." The "frenzied merriment," the ecstatic joy that sweeps the crowd out of its everyday state into the... | |
| Milton R. Stern - 1991 - 224 pages
...potentate, mighty no more, but ma(estic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart" (X1, 230). Yet, at the very moment of climax, at the very height of the instant in which he brought... | |
| Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pages
...agony: "On they went, in counterfeited pomp [note how the rebels parody the authority they resist], in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart" (T&S, 86). The injured and oppressed indeed seem the source of disturbance and violence. It is only... | |
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