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" Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 80
1868
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The Rebellious Puritan: Portrait of Mr. Hawthorne

Lloyd R. Morris - 1927 - 426 pages
...suggested in a question which tentatively expresses his conviction after much brooding upon the problem: "Is sin then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" (vn) In October Nathaniel and his family left Florence, and after a ten days' visit with the Storys...
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The Frontier in American Literature

Lucy Lockwood Hazard - 1927 - 344 pages
...that of Hilda. It indicates a radical protest against Puritanism that he even raises the question: "Is sin then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...education, through which we struggle to a higher and ^ r . •' purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did «' ' Adam fall that we might ultimately...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 22

1868 - 860 pages
...perplexity,' continued Kenyon. ' Sin has educated Donatello, " and elevated him. Is sin, then, whicîi we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe,...might ultimately rise to * a far loftier paradise tian his ? ' '"O, hush!' cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horror which wounded...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 86

1900 - 1008 pages
...girlhood, turns from it in horror. " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. . . . Is sin, then, like sorrow, merely an element of human education,...purer state than we could otherwise have attained ? " It is this dangerous doctrine which would enable us to see in all the wayward impulses of Goethe's...
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Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction

Kenneth Huntress Baldwin, David Kirby - 1975 - 248 pages
...the Donatello whom we knew.". . . "Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then. . . like Sorrow, merely an element of human education,...through which we struggle to a higher and purer state that we could otherwise have attained. Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10): The Scarlet Letter / The ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 pages
...then?" "Here comes my perplexity," continued Kenyon. "Sin has educated Donatcllo, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" "Oh, hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horrour which wounded the poor, speculative...
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Israel's Law and the Church's Faith: Paul and His Recent Interpreters

Stephen Westerholm - 1988 - 252 pages
...little-read novel, The Marble Faun, he allows one of his characters the following provocative speculation: Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his? The very thought strikes a pious listener of the opposite sex as "terrible": Do not you perceive what...
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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

Eugenia C. DeLamotte - 1990 - 367 pages
...find Hilda repudiating with horror the very moral toward which the romance seems to have been tending: "Is sin, then, — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" (854). Some such notion must have enabled Kenyon to release Donatello from imprisonment in his tower;...
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The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1990 - 534 pages
...down. When he surmises in chapter 50 that "Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him," then wonders: "is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...purer state than we could otherwise have attained?" Hilda recoils from his speculation as from an obscenity: "Oh, hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution

Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pages
...the problem to Hilda: "Here comes my perplexity . . . Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier Paradise than his?" (1,236) He may seem to be merely repeating Miriam's argument, and, very importantly, he is - up to...
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