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    The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
    The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
    The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.

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      The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") - Nathaniel Hawthorne

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prophetic Pictures (From Twice Told Tales), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Title: The Prophetic Pictures (From Twice Told Tales)

      Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

      Posting Date: November 27, 2010 [EBook #9204] Release Date: November, 2005 First Posted: August 23, 2003 Last Updated: February 5, 2007

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROPHETIC PICTURES ***

      Produced by David Widger

      TWICE TOLD TALES

      THE PROPHETIC PICTURES

      By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      [This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlap's History of the Arts of Design,—a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist.]

      But this painter! cried Walter Ludlow, with animation. He not only excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other learning and science. He talks Hebrew with Dr. Mather, and gives lectures in anatomy to Dr. Boylston. In a word, he will meet the best instructed man among us, on his own ground. Moreover, he is a polished gentleman,—a citizen of the world,—yes, a true cosmopolite; for he will speak like a native of each clime and country on the globe, except our own forests, whither he is now going. Nor is all this what I most admire in him.

      Indeed! said Elinor, who had listened with a woman's interest to the description of such a man. Yet this is admirable enough.

      Surely it is, replied her lover, but far less so than his natural gift of adapting himself to every variety of character, insomuch that all men—and all women too, Elinor—shall find a mirror of themselves in this wonderful painter. But the greatest wonder is yet to be told.

      Nay, if he have more wonderful attributes than these, said Elinor, laughing, Boston is a perilous abode for the poor gentleman. Are you telling one of a painter, or a wizard?

      In truth, answered he, "that question might be asked much more seriously than you suppose. They say that he paints not merely a man's features, but his mind and heart. He catches the secret sentiments and passions, and throws them upon the canvas, like sunshine,—or perhaps, in the portraits of dark-souled men, like a

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