 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adulteresses - 1883 - 330 pages
...affected him is well shown by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...I read the last scene of ' The Scarlet Letter ' to iny wife, just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice swelled and heaved, as if... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1883 - 656 pages
...affected him is well shown by a reminiscence in the "English Note-Books " (September 14, 1855) : — " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...it with my emotions when I read the last scene of 4 The Scarlet Letter' to my wife, just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1891 - 644 pages
...beside whom, considered physically, any English nobleman whom I have seen would look like common clay. Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...it rather, for my voice swelled and heaved, as if 1 were tossed up and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm. But I was in a very nervous state... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 702 pages
...attention, in regard to this passage, to an allusion in the English Note -Books (September 14, 1855). " Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...coolness in respect to his own pathos, and compare it to my own emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife, just after writing... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 472 pages
...beside whom, considered physically, any English nobleman whom I have seen would look like common clay. Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...respect to his own pathos, and compare it with my own emotions, when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife, just after writing it, —... | |
 | John Louis Haney - American literature - 1923 - 484 pages
...conclusion. Hawthorne himself suffered the torments that he caused his characters to pass through: Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his...respect to his own pathos, and compare it with my own emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife just after writing it, —... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...headache, which I look upon as a tremendous success." Some years later, in England, Hawthorne wrote: emptied h Lttttr to my wife just after writing it — tried to read it, rather, for my voice swelled and heaved,... | |
 | American essays - 1901 - 1122 pages
...himself had read it to James Russell Lowell and William Story in a cider cellar ! . . . I cannot hut wonder at his coolness in respect to his own pathos,...after writing it, — tried to read it, rather, for uiy voice swelled and heaved, as if I were tossed up and down on an ocean as it subsides after a storm."... | |
 | Elmer Kennedy-Andrews - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 220 pages
...wife . . . Of his own reactions on that memorable evening, Hawthorne recalled several years later: "My emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet...just after writing it - tried to read it, rather, for 96 my voice swelled and heaved, as if I were tossed up and down on an ocean, as it subsides after a... | |
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Speaking of Thackeray, I cannot but wonder at his coolness in respect to his own pathos, and compare it to my emotions when I read the last scene of The Scarlet Letter to my wife, just after writing it— tried to read it rather, for my voice swelled... 