Introduction to American Literature, Including Illustrative Selections, With Notes

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Strange and beautiful flowers may burst forth under our very gaze ; but the marvellous energy that produces them remains invisible and mysterious. These reflections force them- selves upon us as we study the life of the most original and most gifted of all our American writers.
396. Ancestry. The interesting historic town of Salem, Mass. , has the distinction of being the birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Here he first saw the light, July 4, 1804. He sprang from Puritan stock almost as old as
...the Plymouth colony. The strong traits of his ancestry, as he himself recog- nized, intertwined themselves with his personality. His ances- tors occupied a position of social and official prominence, and won an unenviable distinction in persecuting Quakers and killing witches. For a hundred years before his birth they followed the sea, " a gray-headed shipmaster, in each generation, retiring from the quarterdeck to the homestead, while a boy of 214 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
fourteen took the hereditary place before the mast, confronting the salt spray and the gale, which had blustered against his sire aud grandsire.


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