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id: 3673
author: Ives, Charles
title: Essays Before a Sonata
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  Is it not a matter nowadays of common impression or general opinion (for the law of averages plays strongly in any theory relating to human attributes) that the world's attitude towards the substance and quality and spirit of these two men, or other men of like character, if there be such, has not been affected by the flowing stream that has changed us? If an interest in, and a sympathy for, the thought-visions of men like Charles Kingsley, Marcus Aurelius, Whit tier, Montaigne, Paul of Tarsus, Robert Browning, Pythagoras, Channing, Milton, Sophocles, Swedenborg, Thoreau, Francis of Assisi, Wordsworth, Voltaire, Garrison, Plutarch, Ruskin, Ariosto, and all kindred spirits and souls of great measure, from David down to Rupert Brooke,--if a study of the thought of such men creates a sympathy, even a love for them and their ideal-part, it is certain that this, however inadequately expressed, is nearer to what music was given man for, than a devotion to Tristan's sensual love of Isolde, to the Tragic Murder of a Drunken Duke, or to the sad thoughts of a bathtub when the water is being let out.


id: 40529
author: Lathrop, George Parsons
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title:
  The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  During this period Mrs. Hawthorne went to Boston for a time, and in Carver Street, Boston, was born their second child and only son, Mr. Julian Hawthorne, who has since made a reputation for himself as a novelist. His hopes regarding unoccupied time were not fulfilled; he was unable to write with freedom during his term of service in Boston, and the best result of it for us is contained in those letters, extracts from which Mrs. Hawthorne published in the first volume of the American Note-Books.


id: 41309
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2)
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  Mine own Dove, need I fear it now? I do wish mine own Dove had been with me, on my last passage to Boston.


id: 41368
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2)
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  Most dear wife, I cannot hope that thou art yet entirely recovered from that terrible influenza; but if thou art not almost well, I know not how thy husband will endure it. If thou art at home on a Sunday, I must and will spend it with my ownest wife.


id: 18566
author: James, Henry
title: Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)
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  This marked love of cases of conscience, says M. MontÃ©gut, this taciturn, scornful cast of mind, this habit of seeing sin everywhere and hell always gaping open, this dusky gaze bent always upon a damned world and a nature draped in mourning, these lonely conversations of the imagination with the conscience, this pitiless analysis resulting from a perpetual examination of one's self, and from the tortures of a heart closed before men and open to God--all these elements of the Puritan character have passed into Mr. Hawthorne, or to speak more justly, have _filtered_ into him, through a long succession of generations. Whatever may have been Hawthorne's private lot, he has the importance of being the most beautiful and most eminent representative of a literature.


id: 8641
author: Stearns, Frank Preston
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title:
  Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier

summary:
  It was not often that he was met with in anybody's house, or seen in company with other men. They wished to live as other men had lived before them, and not in any new, unusual, or eccentric manner.


id: 8088
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
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  Displayed along the walls, and suspended from the pillars of the original King's Chapel, were coats-of-arms of the king, the successive governors, and other distinguished men. Coming out of the caravansary, there were the mountains, in the quiet sunset, and many men drunk, swearing, and fighting.


id: 8089
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
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sentence: 2776
flesch: 74
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  At first I supposed that there would be no inhabitants in such a dilapidated place; but, passing on, I looked back, and saw a decrepit and infirm old man at the angle of the house, its fit occupant. Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds.


id: 37625
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook
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  Lingering through one of the aisles, I happened to look down, and found my foot upon a stone inscribed with this familiar exclamation, _O rare Ben Jonson!_ and remembered the story of stout old Ben's burial in that spot, standing upright,--not, I presume, on account of any unseemly reluctance on his part to lie down in the dust, like other men, but because standing-room was all that could reasonably be demanded for a poet among the slumberous notabilities of his age. Through the pillars and arches, I saw that the walls in that distant region of the edifice were almost wholly incrusted with marble, now grown yellow with time, no blank, unlettered slabs, but memorials of such men as their respective generations deemed wisest and bravest.


id: 7301
author: Woodberry, George Edward
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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flesch: 63
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  In his vexation of spirit Hawthorne is especially suggestive of some discomfortable cousinship between them; and he was often vexed in spirit. Hawthorne has not given a historical view of New England life; such a village, with such a tragedy, never existed, in that environing forest of the lone seacoast; but he has symbolized historical New England by an environment that he created round a tragedy that he read in the human heart, and in this tragedy itself he was able also to symbolize New England life in its internal features.


id: 7880
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
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  In an adjacent chapel is the stone monument of Pope Benedict, whose statue reposes on it, like many which I have seen in the cathedral of York and other old English churches. It is not a magnificent church; but looks dingy with time and apparent neglect, though rendered sufficiently interesting by statues of mediaeval date by John of Bologna and other old sculptors, and by monumental busts and bas-reliefs: also, there is a wooden crucifix by Giotto, with ancient gilding on it; and a painting of Christ, which was considered a wonderful work in its day.


id: 7879
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
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  At one corner of the Palazzo Vecchio is a bronze equestrian statue of Cosmo de' Medici, the first Grand Duke, very stately and majestic; there are other marble statues--one of David, by Michael Angelo--at each side of the palace door; and entering the court I found a rich antique arcade within, surrounded by marble pillars, most elaborately carved, supporting arches that were covered with faded frescos. Then let the art perish as one that the world has done with, as it has done with many other beautiful things that belonged to an earlier time.


id: 6982
author: Hawthorne, Julian
title: Hawthorne and His Circle
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  Yes, whatever it may cost a man of genius to be all his life a good man, and to use and develop his genius to the noblest ends only, that my father's friends cost him, and in that amount am I his debtor; and the longer I myself live, and the more I see of other men, the higher and rarer do I esteem the obligation. But other men crossed our path who had much sounder claims to renown in literature; among them Samuel Warren, author of half a dozen books, two of which are still sometimes heard of--_The Diary of a Late Physician_ and _Ten Thousand a Year_.


id: 8530
author: Lathrop, George Parsons
title: A Study of Hawthorne
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  [Footnote: In the English Note-Books, May 20, 1854, will be found some facts connected with this name, unearthed by Mr. Hawthorne himself. The will says, gr. ch.; and I suppose the mistake occurred through Mr. Hawthorne's not having that document at hand, for reference.]


id: 7170
author: Stearns, Frank Preston
title: The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  Love affairs are soft earth for an intriguing and unprincipled woman to work in, but, fortunately, Mrs. Hawthorne did not belong in that category. In the evenings he read Shakespeare with Mrs. Hawthorne, commencing with the first volume, and going straight through to the end, Titus Andronicus and all,--and this must have occupied them a large portion of the winter.


id: 7877
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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flesch: 65
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  Our own lodgings are in a house that seems to be very old, with panelled walls, and beams across the ceilings, lattice-windows in the chambers, and a musty odor such as old houses inevitably have. And everywhere there are old houses that appear to have been adapted from the monkish residences, or from their spacious offices, and made into convenient dwellings for ecclesiastics, or vergers, or great or small people connected with the cathedral; and with all modern comfort they still retain much of the quaintness of the olden time,--arches, even rows of arcades, pillars, walls, beautified with patches of Gothic sculpture, not wilfully put on by modern taste, but lingering from a long past; deep niches, let into the fronts of houses, and occupied by images of saints; a growth of ivy, overspreading walls, and just allowing the windows to peep through,--so that no novelty, nor anything of our hard, ugly, and actual life comes into these limits, through the defences of the gateway, without being mollified and modified.


id: 8090
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
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  Speaking of old men, I am reminded of the scholars of the Boston Charity School, who walk about in antique, long-skirted blue coats, and knee-breeches, and with bands at their necks,--perfect and grotesque pictures of the costume of three centuries ago. A country owes much to human beings whose bodies she has worn out and whose immortal part she has left undeveloped or debased, as we tied them here; and having wasted an idle paragraph upon them, let me now suggest that old men have a kind of susceptibility to moral impressions, and even (up to an advanced period) a receptivity of truth, which often appears to come to them after the active time of life is past.


id: 7876
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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  Old men look very antiquated here in their old-fashioned coats and breeches, sunning themselves by the wayside. At the street-crossings there are old men or little girls with their brooms; urchins propose to brush your boots; and if you get into a cab, a man runs to open the door for you, and touches his hat for a fee, as he closes it again.


id: 6926
author: Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
title: Memories of Hawthorne
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  Last evening Mr. Hawthorne came for Mary to go with him to Miss Burley's [to a club which met every week]. Mr. Hawthorne had declined to come to dine with you on your arrival, but was to be here directly after dinner.


id: 12632
author: Fields, James Thomas
title: Yesterdays with Authors
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  Among the books which I have been reading with the greatest interest is the Life of Dr. Channing, and I can hardly tell you the glow of gratification with which I found my own name mentioned, as one of the writers in whose works that great man had taken pleasure. Next morning, Harness (Fields knows--Rev. William--did an edition of Shakespeare--old friend of the Kembles and Mrs. Siddons), writing to me about it, and saying it was a most amazing and terrific thing, added, but I am bound to tell you that I had an almost irresistible impulse upon me to _scream_, and that, if any one had cried out, I am certain I should have followed.


id: 7881
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
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  In an adjacent chapel is the stone monument of Pope Benedict, whose statue reposes on it, like many which I have seen in the cathedral of York and other old English churches. At one corner of the Palazzo Vecchio is a bronze equestrian statue of Cosmo de' Medici, the first Grand Duke, very stately and majestic; there are other marble statues--one of David, by Michael Angelo--at each side of the palace door; and entering the court I found a rich antique arcade within, surrounded by marble pillars, most elaborately carved, supporting arches that were covered with faded frescos.


