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Moodie," said I, "you are a much better judge of wines than I have yet learned to be. Tell me fairly, did you never drink it where the grape grows?" "How should that have been, Mr. Coverdale?" answered old Moodie shyly; but then he took courage, as it were, and uttered a feeble little laugh.
From this spot I strayed onward, quite lost in reverie, and neither knew nor cared whither I was going, until a low, soft, well-remembered voice spoke, at a little distance. "There is Mr. Coverdale!" "Miles Coverdale!" said another voice, and its tones were very stern. "Let him come forward, then!" "Yes, Mr.
It is an old English word, and means overlaid or lined with wood, wainscot, or plank, either roof, sides, or floor. Ed. The line means the text. The marginal reading agrees with the puritan version 'overlayed. Tyndale renders it, 'And he paved the house with precious stones goodly. Coverdale, 'And overlayed the house with precious stones to beautify it. Ed.
"But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have surely blundered into the very emptiest mockery in our effort to establish the one true system. I have done with it; and Blithedale must find another woman to superintend the laundry, and you, Mr. Coverdale, another nurse to make your gruel, the next time you fall ill.
"Ah," said he, shaking his head, "they might interest you more than you suppose. But I had better be silent, Mr. Coverdale. If this good wine, though claret, I suppose, is not apt to play such a trick, but if it should make my tongue run too freely, I could never look you in the face again." "You never did look me in the face, Mr. Moodie," I replied, "until this very moment."
Wiclif had been a pioneer in the work of translation and publication, but Tyndale and Coverdale in the sixteenth century supplied what he had aimed at doing in the fourteenth. The fifteenth century was the quiet dark hour before the dawn.
But the bishops' version still hung on hand; till in despair of its appearance a friend of Archbishop Cranmer, Miles Coverdale, was employed to correct and revise the translation of Tyndale; and the Bible which he edited was published in 1538 under the avowed patronage of Henry himself. But the force of events was already carrying England far from the standpoint of Erasmus or More.
In denying us our rights, he betrays even more blindness to his own interests than profligate disregard of ours!" "Is this true?" asked Priscilla with simplicity, turning to Hollingsworth. "Is it all true, that Mr. Coverdale and Zenobia have been saying?" "No, Priscilla!" answered Hollingsworth with his customary bluntness. "They have neither of them spoken one true word yet."
He has included in it a number of descriptive passages taken from his Brook Farm diary; most notably the account of that sylvan masquerade, in which Coverdale finds his former associates engaged on his return to Blithedale in the autumn. Perhaps this is the reason why the book has so pleasant a flavor a mellow after-thought of old associations.
"They are always happier than male creatures," said I. "You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale," replied Zenobia contemptuously, "or I shall think you lack the poetic insight. Did you ever see a happy woman in your life? Of course, I do not mean a girl, like Priscilla and a thousand others, for they are all alike, while on the sunny side of experience, but a grown woman.
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