Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . cathedrals, and the 36°public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of aContinental city, where a new life had awaited her, still in con-nection with the misshapen scholar—a new life, but feeding itselfon time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumblingwall. Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes, came back the rude 36smarket-place of the Puritan
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . cathedrals, and the 36°public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of aContinental city, where a new life had awaited her, still in con-nection with the misshapen scholar—a new life, but feeding itselfon time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumblingwall. Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes, came back the rude 36smarket-place of the Puritan settlement, with all the townspeopleassembled and levelling their stern regards at Hester Prynne—yes, at herself, who stood on the scaffold of the pillory, an in-fant on her ann, and the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically em-broidered with gold thread upon her bosom ! 37° 22. Could it be true ? She clutched the child so fiercely to herbreast that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward atthe scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assureherself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes !—thesewere her realities : all else had vanished ! 375 XXXII. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Jrjj j^Ua.^^.^ /XAJ ==::=<ck- ^ /OLX-^^_f CHARACTERIZATION BY GEORGE W. CURTIS. I. If we care to explain the eager and affectionate welcomewhich always hails Longfellows writings, it is easy to see towhat general quality that greeting must be ascribed. As withWalter Scott, or Victor Hugo, or Beranger, or Dickens, or Addi- CURT/SS CHARACTERIZATION OF LONGFELLOW. 471 son in the Spectator, or Washington Irving, it is a genial human-ity. It is a quality, in all these instances, independent of liter-ary art and of genius, but which is made known to others, andtherefore becomes possible to be recognized, only through liter-ary forms. 2. The creative imagination, the airy fancy, the exquisitegrace, harmony, and simplicity, the rhetorical brilliancy, the in-cisive force
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