 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 222 pages
...foreboding, of the year's decay — so blessedly sweet and sad, in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it ? Ah ; but there is a...melancholy, like to this, when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life, and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1846 - 222 pages
...a foreboding, of the year's decay—so blessedly sweet and sad, in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it ? Ah ; but there is a...melancholy, like to this, when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life, and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 472 pages
...a foreboding, of tho year's decay— *o blessedly sweet and sad, in tho same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it ? Ah ; but there is a...half-acknowledged melancholy, like to this, when we stand in UM perfected vigor of our life, and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...a foreboding of the year's decay — so blessedly sweet and sad, in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it? Ah, but there' is a...melancholy, like to this, when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life, and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...foreboding, of the year's decay — so blessedly sweet and sad, in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it? Ah; but there is a half-acknowledged...melancholy, like to this, when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life, and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1873 - 516 pages
...melancholy, he goes on to say, resembling the feeling prompted by this recognition of the waning year, "when we stand in the perfected vigour of our life,...us all his flowers, and that the next work of his never idle fingers must be—to steal them, one by one, away." To apply Wordsworth's lines:— " Summer... | |
 | George Bradford Bartlett - Concord (Mass.) - 1880 - 176 pages
...plumes ; and with all the peace and beauty came, too, the ' half-acknowledged melancholy,' the feeling ' that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his never idle fingers must be to steal them one by one away.' Concord is rich in wild flowers and meadow... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American fiction - 1882 - 556 pages
...? Ah, but there is a half-acknowledged melancholy like to this when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life and feel that Time has now given us all...never-idle fingers must be to steal them one by one away. I have forgotten whether the song of the cricket benot as early a token of autumn's approach as any... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne - 1882 - 574 pages
...a foreboding — of the year's decay, so blessedly sweet and sad in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it? Ah, but there is a half-acknowledged...melancholy like to this when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1882 - 582 pages
...a foreboding — of the year's decay, so blessedly sweet and sad in the same breath. Did I say that there was no feeling like it ? Ah, but there is a...melancholy like to this when we stand in the perfected vigor of our life and feel that Time has now given us all his flowers, and that the next work of his... | |
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Earlier in some years than in others; sometimes even in the first weeks of July. There is no other feeling like what is caused by this faint, doubtful, yet real perception — if it be not rather a foreboding — of the year's decay, so blessedly sweet... 
