 ... the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them, until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Strana 455upravili: - 1851Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | John McWilliams - 1986 - 284 str.
...moral announced by the preface may contend that "an avalanche of ill-gotten gold" will remain a curse "until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms," the novel's end regathers that accumulated mass in the family, and not among the people (p. 2). Hawthorne's... | |
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 str.
...singular gratification, if this Romance might effectually convince mankind (or, indeed, any one man) of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms. (352) It is hard not to recall this entirely unambiguous authorial voice when we read in "The Daguerreotypist"... | |
 | R.T. Bienvenu, M. Feingold - 1990 - 320 str.
...the vehicle which conveys much of what is worst in the past to the present. Hawthorne had no doubt "of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them" and the entire public. One cannot help sympathizing with Holgrave, the young Jacksonian artist, when... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 str.
...singular gratification, if this romance might effectually convince mankind — or indeed, any one man — of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms. There seems to be no need to urge this beautiful volume upon the public. . . . "Notices of New Books,"... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 232 str.
...the vehicle which conveys much of what is worst in the past to the present. Hawthorne had no doubt "of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them" and the entire public. One cannot help sympathizing with Holgrave, the young Jacksonian artist, when... | |
 | Della Pollock - 1998 - 412 str.
...author] would feel it a singular gratification, if this Romance might effectually convince mankind ... of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...an unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them."24 With this moral in mind, critics commonly center the text's authority in the character of... | |
 | Robert S. Friedman - 2000 - 230 str.
...chances for his "singular gratification, " that "this Romance might effectually convince mankind ... of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...real estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity " (p. 352). The marriage offers a perspective on the course of the future that is on balance a hopeful... | |
 | Paul Gilmore - 2001 - 292 str.
...terms of biological inheritance. While Hawthorne's ostensible moral suggests a Gothic explanation — "the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...unfortunate posterity, thereby to maim and crush them" (2) — he explains the transmission of these masculine "bad passions" (119) from the Puritan Colonel... | |
 | Michael Davitt Bell - 2001 - 254 str.
...in social or political criticism. Hawthorne describes the book's supposed moral, in the preface, as "the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...estate, on the heads of an unfortunate posterity, whereby to maim and crush them, until the accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2006 - 654 str.
...singular gratification if this romance might effectually convince mankind - or, indeed, any one man - of the folly of tumbling down an avalanche of ill-gotten...mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms. In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope... | |
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