“ Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring! ”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850). copy citation
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Source | The Scarlet Letter |
| Topic | spirit sighing murmuring |
| Date | 1850 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25344/25344-h/25344-h.htm |
Context
“Continually, indeed, as it stole onward, the streamlet kept up a babble, kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy, like the voice of a young child that was spending its infancy without playfulness, and knew not how to be merry among sad acquaintance and events of sombre hue.
«O brook! O foolish and tiresome little brook!» cried Pearl, after listening awhile to its talk. «Why art thou so sad? Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!»
But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the forest-trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.” source
«O brook! O foolish and tiresome little brook!» cried Pearl, after listening awhile to its talk. «Why art thou so sad? Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!»
But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the forest-trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.” source
