How would you characterize this rhetoric in this passage?

Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so


imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be


extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth


made his advent to the town. His first entry on the


scene, few people could tell whence, dropping down,


as it were, out of the sky, or starting from the nether


earth, had an aspect of mystery, which was easily


heightened to the miraculous. He was now known to


be a man of skill; it was observed that he gathered


herbs, and the blossoms of wild-flowers, and dug up


roots and plucked off twigs from the forest-trees, like


one acquainted with hidden virtues in what was value-less


to common eyes. He was heard to speak of Sir


Kenelm Digby, and other famous men, -- whose scien-


tific attainments were esteemed hardly less than super-


natural, -- as having been his correspondents or asso-


ciates. Why, with such rank in the learned world, had


he come hither? What could he, whose sphere was in


great cities, be seeking in the wilderness? In answer


to this query, a rumor gained ground, -- and, however


absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people,


-- that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by


transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic, from a Ger-


man university, bodily through the air, and setting him


down at the door of Mr. Dimmesdale's study! Individuals


of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven pro-


motes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of


what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to


see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival.


This idea was countenanced by the strong interest


which the physician ever manifested in the young


clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner,


and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence


from his naturally reserved sensibility. He


expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but


was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early


undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favorable result.


The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the


young and fair maidens, of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock,


were alike importunate that he should make trial of the


physician's frankly offered skill. Mr. Dimmesdale gently


repelled their entreaties.

How would you characterize this rhetoric in this passage?
elevated, formal, detached
Reply:I'd characterize it as too long to waste time on.
Reply:It reads like something back in the time of the Bronte sisters, when you never used one adjective if three would do.


In style, the rhetoric is pedantic. And boring.

safety boots