INMAN MIDTERM QUOTES
About _______ There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick...
(Huck's) Pap
From _________; by ________ We paused before a House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground-
Because I Could Not Stop for Death; Dickinson
About _______ When he fights, headlines follow. (with growing fervor) The whole world will be watching our victory over Drummond.
Brady
From _________; by ________ I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account...
Civil Disobedience; Thoreau
From _________; by ________ That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have...
Civil Disobedience; Thoreau
Said by ______ Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists...
Devil
Said by ________ Were I an atheist...I might have found peace long ere now
Dimmes(dale)
Said by ______ about ________ The old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.
Dimmes(dale); Chillingworth
Said by _____ to ______ I have a strange fancy...that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again
Dimmes(dale); Hester
From _________; by ________ ***It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n****r - but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.***
HF (Huck Finn); Twain
From _________; by ________ ...she was most awful beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up like glory, she was so glad her uncles was come
HF (Huck Finn); Twain
From _________; by ________ First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on
HF (Huck Finn); Twain
From _________; by ________ Gimme a case-knife
HF (Huck Finn); Twain
From _________; by ________ There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick...
HF (Huck Finn); Twain
About ______ They said it meant Able...
Hester
About ________ All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up... and had long ago fallen away, leaving a bare and harsh outline...
Hester
Said by ______ I had a nice clean place to stay, madame, and I left it to come here
Hornsbeck
About _____ ***It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n****r - but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.***
Huck
About ________ ***You're more religious than he was***
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ ***After all, November, ain't too far off, and it don't do us any good to have any of the voters gettin' all steamed up***
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ ***You're more religious than he was***
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ Do we curse the man who denies the Word?
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ I had a nice clean place to stay, madame, and I left it to come here
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ They got money, we'll sleep'em
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ When he fights, headlines follow. (with growing fervor) The whole world will be watching our victory over Drummond.
ItW (Inherit the Wind); (Jerome) Lawrence and (Robert E.) Lee
From _________; by ________ He even smiled again - that same sad smile, which always appeared like a faint glimmering of light proceeding from the obscurity beneath the veil
MBV (Minister's Black Veil); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ I had a fancy...that the minister and the maiden's spirit were walking hand in hand
MBV (Minister's Black Veil); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
About ______ ...she was most awful beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up like glory, she was so glad her uncles was come
Mary Jane (Wilks)
Said by _____ to ______ ***After all, November, ain't too far off, and it don't do us any good to have any of the voters gettin' all steamed up***
Mayor to judge
Said by _____ to ______ They got money, we'll sleep'em
Mrs. Krebs; Bannister
From _________; by ________ In the woods...a man casts off hissers, as the snake his slough
Nature; Emerson
About ______ the mother-forest...recognized a kindred wildness in the human child
Pearl
About _______ Not seldom, she would laugh anew, louder than before, like a thing incapable of human sorrow
Pearl
Said by ______ to ______ Though wast not bold! - thou was not true!
Pearl; Dimmes(dale)
About _______ ***Deep ruffs painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power***
Puritan elite
About ________ I had a fancy...that the minister and the maiden's spirit were walking hand in hand
Rev Hooper
Said by _______ Do we curse the man who denies the Word?
Rev(erend) Brown
About ______ He even smiled again - that same sad smile, which always appeared like a faint glimmering of light, proceeding form the obscurity beneath the veil
Rev. Hooper
From _________; by ________ They said it meant Able...
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH
From _________; by ________ ***Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power***
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ All the light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up... and had long ago fallen away, leaving a bare and harsh outline...
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ I have a strange fancy...that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ Not seldom, she would laugh anew, louder than before, like a thing incapable of human sorrow
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ The old man's revenge has been lacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ Thou wast not bold! - thou was not true!
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ Were I an atheist...I might have found peace long ere now
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ the mother-forest...recognized a kindred wildness in the human child
SL (Scarlet Letter); NH (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
From _________; by ________ Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind...
Self-reliance; Emerson
From _________; by ________ ***I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,/I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,/But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll***
Song of Myself; Whitman
From _________; by ________ A child said What is the grass fetching it to me with full hands...
Song of Myself; Whitman
From _________; by ________ A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands...
Song of Myself; Whitman
From _________; by ________ I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world
Song of Myself; Whitman
From _________; by ________ ...the devil himself could not tempt him to turn slave trader
TDaTW (The Devil and Tom Walker); WI (Washington Irving)
From _________; by ________ Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists...
TDaTW (The Devil and Tom Walker); WI (Washington Irving)
From _________; by ________ ***There is a Power whose care/Teaches thy way along that pathless coast***
To a Waterfowl; Bryant
Said by ______ Gimme a case-knife
Tom Sawyer
About ______ ...the devil himself could not tempt him to turn slave trader
Tom Walker
From _________; by ________ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...I wanted to live deep and such out all the marrow of life...
Walden; Thoreau
From _________; by ________ It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side.
Walden; Thoreau
From _________; by ________ When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them...
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer; Whitman
