...that Thackeray himself had read it to James Russell Lowell and William Story in a cider cellar ! . . . I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...were tossed up and down on an ocean as it subsides aflera storm. Why, then, we ask, should we have tears ready for The Newcomes, and none for The Scarlet...

...his own pathos," with his own emotions when he read the last scene of the " Scarlet Letter " to his wife, just after writing it, — " tried to read it...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm." It is not well to search an author too closely as to his feeling over the creatures of his imagination....

...Letter. He writes to a friend saying he read the last scene to his wife, or rather 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." Mrs. Hawthorne told a friend that her husband seemed depressed all during that winter. "There was a...

...Letter. He writes to a friend saying he read the last scene to his wife, or rather 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." Mrs. Hawthorne told a friend that her husband seemed depressed all during that winter. "There was a...

...physically, any English nobleman whom I have seen would look like common clay. Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to...as it subsides after a storm. But I was in a very >>ervous state then, having gone through a great die versity of emotion, while writing it, for many...

...himself suffered the torments that he caused his characters to pass through: Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to his own pathos, and compare it with my own emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife just after writing it, —...

...upon as a tremendous success." Some years later, in England, Hawthorne wrote: "Speaking of Thackeray, oking down with a protecting air on the surrounding...English landscape evince a calm and settled securit Lttttr to my wife just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice swelled and heaved,...

...to his own pathos," with his own emotions when he read the last scene of the Scarlet Letter to his wife, just after writing it, — " tried to read it...and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm." It is not well to search an author too closely as to his feeling over the creatures of his imagination....

...Nathaniel and Sophia from which the rhetoric of domestic bliss was notably absent. Nathaniel later recalled "my emotions when I read the last scene of the Scarlet...as if I were tossed up and down on an ocean, as it subsided after a storm. But I was in a very nervous state, then, having gone through a great diversity...

...last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife just after writing it - tried to read it, rather, for 96 my voice swelled and heaved, as if I were tossed up...down on an ocean, as it subsides after a storm."' The emotion attests to the author's sincerity (if attestation were needed), the more so because Hawthorne...