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,... Macmillan's Magazine - Side 237redigeret af - 1904Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Morley - 1894 - 702 sider
...novels, and to lay the scene of them in the Western world. " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." The perusal of Hawthorne's American Note-Books operates as a practical commentary upon this somewhat... | |
| George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 sider
...life. Yet eight years later Hawthorne wrote with calm ennui, " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." Is crime never romantic, then, until distance ennobles it? Or were the tragedies of Puritan life so... | |
| George William Curtis - 1894 - 314 sider
...life. Yet eight years later Hawthorne wrote with calm ennui, " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with ray dear native land." Is crime never romantic, then, until distance ennobles it? Or were the tragedies... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 316 sider
...romance. In the preface to "The Marble Faun " Hawthorne wrote : "No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight." And yet it may be doubted whether any environment could have been found more fitted to his peculiar... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1895 - 324 sider
...romance. In the preface to " The Marble Faun " Hawthorne wrote : 4 'No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosper- JJJSuiceh °f ity in broad and simple daylight." And yet it may be J^^fa1" doubted whether... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 508 sider
...complaining of the difficulties that attended his work : " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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 themes,... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - 496 sider
...complaining of the difficulties that attended his work : " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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 themes,... | |
| 1861 - 864 sider
...reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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 - 1897 - 534 sider
...insisted upon as they are, and 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, no antiquity, no mystery, ho picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,... | |
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