Literary notes about Hidden (AI summary)
The term hidden is employed with remarkable versatility in literature, serving as both a marker of secret concealment and as a metaphor for deeper, often unacknowledged truths. In some passages, it denotes the physical act of keeping something out of sight—whether it is a treasure tucked away in a room [1], a face partially obscured by a hood [2], or even landscapes obscured by mists and trees [3, 4]. In other contexts, hidden points to the internal realm of emotions and motives: feelings carefully locked away in one’s heart [5], sins concealed from public view [6], or subtle hints of personal secrecy that reveal more than they conceal [7, 8]. At times, the word enriches narratives by hinting at latent mysteries or forewarnings, as when an enemy lurks unseen [9] or a hidden truth waits to be discovered [10, 11]. This dual capacity, balancing the tangible with the symbolic, imparts a layered complexity that invites readers to look beyond the immediately visible world.
- The real box, containing the treasure, was comfortably hidden in my room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - V. Resting upon his pilgrim staff, Right opposite the Palmer stood; His thin dark visage seen but half, Half hidden by his hood.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott - The next day the rain poured down in torrents again, and when Mary looked out of her window the moor was almost hidden by gray mist and cloud.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - On one side, the graceful winding of the waters stretched away, now visible, now hidden by trees, as far as the eye could see.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - Holding it as the most sacred of my human experiences, I have hidden it in my heart.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Repent, then, for thy hidden sins, and for the secret malice of those which thou knowest."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - Yes, he would be good, and the hideous thing that he had hidden away would no longer be a terror to him.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Always there was something she sought blindly, passionately, some hidden wonder in life.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson - So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy.
— from The Aesop for Children by Aesop - They bring to light something concerning their leaders which the latter, perhaps, have hitherto kept hidden beneath a bushel with consummate art.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - This is therefore a decisive experiment, which must necessarily expose any error lying hidden in the assumptions of reason.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
