 | 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 but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 sider
...alone: — these things we shall find in Hawthorne, just as we find them — some or all of them — in Hugo or Musset, in Gautier or Merimee. But what a...anything but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 sider
...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...but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 316 sider
...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...but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 sider
...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...but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 sider
...had led him abroad, "of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...anything but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land." But the flower of his fancy did not flourish... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 sider
...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...but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance... | |
 | 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 but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort... | |
 | 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 but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort... | |
 | 1868 - 548 sider
...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...but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
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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,... 
