 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
 | 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,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1899 - 960 sider
...imagination, this was no light task, as his own words declare. " 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." This inevitable difficulty, once conquered by Hawthorne, has seemed less formidable to later romancers.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 350 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...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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 632 sider
...imagination, this was no light task, as his own words declare. "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." This inevitable difficulty, once conquered by Hawthorne, has seemed less formidable to later romancers.... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 254 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1901 - 660 sider
...a romance about a country where j there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no pic- i turesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity,...as ' is happily the case with my dear native land. It will j be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes,... | |
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