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Updated: July 27, 2025
For some the style of Hawthorne may now be felt to possess a certain artificiality: the price paid for that effect of stateliness demanded by the theme and suggestive also of the fact that the words were written over half a century ago. In these days of photographic realism of word and idiom, our conception of what is fit in diction has suffered a sea-change. Our ear is adjusted to another tune.
"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! now I hear them Ding-dong, bell." This strange news of his lost father soon aroused the prince from the stupid fit into which he had fallen.
Fairbairn, once a mild north-country schoolmaster, of correct phraseology and respectable demeanour, had, under the pressure of his service, developed like that white sheet of notepaper. He had suffered "A sea-change Into something rich and strange" and from a schoolmaster had become a buccaneer with a truculent manner and a mind of violence.
The devoted woman had been strolling slowly for the girl's sake, though oppressed with a mournful certainty that her most prominent feature was fast becoming a fine copper-color; yet she had sustained herself like a Spartan matron, till it suddenly occurred to her that her charge might be suffering a like "sea-change Into something rich and strange."
I confess to the fancy that there is some subtle influence working this sea-change in us, which the guidebooks, in their enumeration of the delights of the region, do not touch, and which maybe reaches back beyond the Christian era.
Radley, of the Adelphi Hotel are peculiarly calculated to suffer a sea-change; or whether a plain mutton-chop, and a glass or two of sherry, would be less likely of conversion into foreign and disconcerting material.
The air at Santa Barbara must have been very nourishing if your appetite was no better there than here. Your strange 'sea-change' on that distant coast is still marvellous to me." "Mary can tell you how ravenous I usually am. I do not meet friends every day from whom I have been separated so long." "It is a very ordinary thing for me to meet 'friends," he replied, sotto voce, "for I have many.
Long Tom Coffin may be described as Leatherstocking suffered a sea-change, with a harpoon instead of a rifle, and a pea-jacket instead of a hunting-shirt.
Let the lofty read studiously the signs that in the heavens are portentous of storm or of shine; I, who am of commoner clay, must content myself with deciphering those that are of earth. But a "sea-change" was upon us.
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! now I hear them, Ding-dong, bell. This strange news of his lost father soon roused the prince from the stupid fit into which he had fallen.
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