 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
 | Essex Institute - 1904 - 194 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... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1904 - 182 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...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 those... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1904 - 404 sider
...clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. No author [he says] can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiqiuty, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1905 - 372 sider
...the banks of the Nile. It is just this kind of sorrow and 1 Hawthorne {Marble Faun, Preface) speaks " of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong," and Motley, after reading the romance, says, " I like those shadowy, weird, fantastic, Hawthornesque... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1905 - 392 sider
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 | 1906 - 774 sider
...writers continue to go abroad when with Hawthorne, their genius "rebels at the difficulty of writing romance about a country where there is no shadow,...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with our native land." Let them show the sanity and patriotism of the wish which immediately succeeds these... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 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...picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosper- romance? ° f ity in broad and simple daylight." And yet it may be ^^"i| a in doubted whether... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 270 sider
...Hawthorne wrote calmly in the Preface to The Marble Faun, " 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... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 sider
...clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. "No author," he says, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily !) "the case with my dear native land. It will be very... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1912 - 482 sider
...old Salem institution (1850). Hawthorne afterwards observed that " no author without a trial can see the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight." Yet in " The Scarlet Letter " he had touched even the gloom of Puritanism with the glamour of romance,... | |
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