Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2J. R. Osgood, 1871 - France |
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Page 13 - There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable profusion. I could not form any judgment about her age ; it may range anywhere within the limits of human life or elfin life. When I met her in London at Lord Houghton's breakfast-table, she did not impress me so singularly ; for the morning light is more prosaic than the dim illumination of their great tapestried drawing-room ; and, besides, sitting...
Page 14 - Browning was very efficient in keeping up conversation with everybody, and seemed to be in all parts of the room and in every group at the same moment; a most vivid and quickthoughted person, logical and common-sensible, as, I presume, poets generally are in their daily talk.
Page 189 - Rome. It was a most delightful morning, a genial atmosphere; the more so, I suppose, because this was the Campagna, the region of pestilence and death. I had a quiet, gentle, comfortable pleasure, as if, after many wanderings, I was drawing near Rome, for, now that I have known it once, Rome certainly does draw into itself my heart, as I think even London, or even little Concord itself, or old sleepy Salem, never did and never will.
Page 168 - I could take root anywhere, I know not but it could as well be here as in another place. It would only be a kind of despair, however, that would ever make me dream of finding a home in Italy ; a sense that I had lost my country through absence or incongruity, and that earth is not an abiding-place. I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness ; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State ; neither can...
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Page 52 - Powers, who had the venial infirmity of believing that "no other man besides himself was worthy to touch marble," but whose ideas were " square, solid, and tangible, and therefore readily grasped and retained ; . . . but when you have his ultimate thought and perception, you feel inclined to think and see a little further for yourself." The substance of many of these talks is given in the Note-Books ; and it is entertaining to note how Hawthorne would eliminate from Powers's assertions the personal...
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Page 244 - Farther onward, we saw a white, ancient-looking group of towers, beneath a mountain, which was so iigh, and rushed so precipitately down upon this pile of building as quite to dwarf it ; besides which, its dingy whiteness had not a very picturesque effect. Nevertheless, this was the Castle of Chillon. It appears to sit right upon the water, and does not rise very loftily above it. I was disappointed in its aspect, having imagined this famous castle as situated •upon a rock, a hundred, or, for aught...