 And now I begin to understand why I was imprisoned so many years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should have grown hard and rough, and been...  The Literature of Ecstasy - Page 94by Albert Mordell - 1921 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 580 pages
...have grown hurdand rough, and be»n covered with earthly dust, andwy heart might Lave become cal ,ou« by rude encounters with the multitude. But living in solitude till the fullcess of time was come, I still kept the dew ol my youth and the freshness of my heart. 1 used to... | |
 | 1868 - 784 pages
...in this lonely chamber. and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if l had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...youth and the freshness of my heart I used to think that I could imagine all passions, all feelings and states of the heart and mind ; but how little did... | |
 | 1868 - 798 pages
...in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if 1 had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...youth and the freshness of my heart I used to think that I could imagine all passions, all feelings and states of the heart and mind ; but how little did... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 248 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...fulness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my jouth and the freshness of my heart I used to think I could imagine all passions, all feelings, and... | |
 | Joseph White Symonds - 1878 - 54 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...the multitude. * * * But living in solitude till the fullness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart." He was... | |
 | Henry James - 1879 - 206 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...youth and the freshness of my heart I used to think that I could imagine all passions, all feelings, and states of the heart and mind ; but how little... | |
 | Henry James - 1880 - 202 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...earthly dust, and my heart might have become callous by rnde encounters with the multitude. . . . But living in solitude till the fulness of time was come,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I. had sooner made my escape into the world, I...and the freshness of my heart. ... I used to think that I *"A Fresh Grave in Kensal Green," by MD Comvay, Harper's Weekly, April 22, 1871, p. 369-70.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1882 - 280 pages
...years in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if I had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart. There was one, at least, of Hawthorne's contemporaries, and of a genius as rare and delicate as his... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 310 pages
...in this lonely chamber, and why I could never break through the viewless bolts and bars ; for if 1 had sooner made my escape into the world, I should...the multitude. . . . But living in solitude till the fullness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart." His first... | |
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