 | William Stebbing - History - 1887 - 432 pages
...lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with its Gallows-hill at one end, and a view of the almshouse at the other. " Such," he continues, " being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adultery - 1892 - 236 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill and New Guinea at one end, and a view of the alms house at the other — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 702 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame ; its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill...one end, and a view of the almshouse at the other — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame, — its long and lazy street lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill...one end, and a view of the almshouse at the other, — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Family secrets - 1898 - 384 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame, — its long and lazy street lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill...one end, and a view of the almshouse at the other, — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1898 - 362 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame—its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill and New Guinea at one end, and a view of the alms house at the other—such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - Literary Criticism - 1902 - 322 pages
...neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame, — its long and lazy street lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill...one end, and a view of the almshouse at the other, — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...picturesque nor quaint, but only tame, IB — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows Hill...one end, and a view of the alms-house at the other, ao — such being the features of my native town, it would be quite as reasonable to form a sentimental... | |
 | Prosser Hall Frye - Literature - 1908 - 334 pages
...with Gallows Hill," where the witches were hanged and Giles Corey suffered the peine forte et dure, "and New Guinea at one end and a view of the almshouse at the other"; "the figure of his grave, bearded, sabled-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor — who came so early... | |
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... aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty; its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame ; its long and lazy street, lounging... 
