Love - Or a Name: A Story

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Página 199 - Well, that wouldn't be an unfair exchange,' said Warren, laughing. ' For my part, though, I never noticed much of the Cincinnatus in my character. But this is all a romance of yours, Drayton. Where did you come by so much imagination ? There is such a thing as the Constitution of the United States.' 'I have heard of some such document. Did you ever read it?' ' I could repeat it by heart when I was in college.' ' Government of, by, and for the people, isn't it ? No such transparent fraud was ever...
Página 2 - There is a suggestion of depth and intensity about it which is rare in modern fiction, and an hereditary instinct for dealing with the lights and shadows of the moral nature.
Página 2 - The fullest and most charming accounts of Hawthorne's ancestry and family; his boyhood and youth; his courtship and marriage; his life at Salem, Lenox, and Concord ; his travels and residence in England and Italy ; his later life in America ; and his chief works, and their motives and origins. An eminent English author pronounces this 'the most important and interesting biographical -work since BosweWs Johnson?
Página 300 - ... words," said Warren Bell; " and they w-were true ! '' Men and women in this world do almost as they please, some following the good and some the evil ; and sometimes the evil seem happy, and sometimes the good seem miserable. But the thirst for renown is never slaked ; it waxes sharper with indulgence. Love of self assumes many forms, noble and ignoble ; but, whether it blaze gloriously or smoulder basely, its final outcome can only be a handful of dead ashes. After so many struggles, sophistries,...
Página 2 - Mr. Hawthorne has perhaps a more powerful imagination than any contemporary writer of fiction. . . In ' Fortune's Fool ' this imagination shows best in his landscapes, in his description of New England forests, and in the picture he gives of the Sacramento Valley.

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