 No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...  The Arena - Side 1231906Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1861 - 814 sider
...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 sider
...says, apologising for the unpatriotic impulse which had led him abroad, "of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land." But the flower of his fancy did not flourish except in its own bleak climate... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 sider
...must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 sider
...must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 sider
...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of those special... | |
 | 1860 - 528 sider
...laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 sider
...laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 sider
...must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily-handled... | |
 | 1861 - 996 sider
...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
 | 1861 - 830 sider
...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
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