 ... whom continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life and noisome odor. Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances...  Kidd's Own Journal - Page 2531854Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846 - 222 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...the world, that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautified results — the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1846 - 222 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...the world, that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautified results—the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 472 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its lovelincs* and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...sleeps, and where lurk the slimy eel, and speckled frog, mid the mud turtle, whom continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black mud out of which... | |
 | 1854 - 396 pages
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 | 1854 - 616 pages
...LILT. — It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...speckled frog, and the mud turtle, whom continual washing can not cleanse. It is the very same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life... | |
 | 1854 - 850 pages
...whence this perfect Hower derives its lovcHness and perfume, springing as it does from the black шии over which the river sleeps, and where lurk the slimy eel and speckled frog, and the mud-turtle, which continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black mna out of which the... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1854 - 416 pages
...whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the blach mnd over which the river sleeps, and where lurk the slimy eel and speckled frog, and the mud-turtle, which continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black muJ out of which the... | |
 | 1866 - 808 pages
...flower for growing at any rate. It is a marvel whence it derives its loveliness and perfume, sprouting as it does from the black mud over which the river sleeps, and from which the yellow lily likewise draws its unclean life and noisome odor. So it is with many people... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its rank life and noisome odor. Thus we see, too, in the world, that some persons assimilate only what... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud over which the river...It is the very same black mud out of which • The Manse was near the scene of the Concord fight, in April, 1775. 39« the yellow lily sucks its rank... | |
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