...items of high civilization" which were absent from Hawthorne's outlook. There are in America, he says, no sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy,...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys,...

...the romancer's point of view with the explicitness of the dilettante dwelling on the disagreeable: No State in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched homes, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor...

...those early days, " the items of high civilisation as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific national name....

...previous essays] to English readers by enumerating the surroundings that the American lacked. He had no sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no Church, no clergy, no diplomatic service, no palaces, no castles, no manors, no cathedrals, no abbeys. All these things and...

...one might enumcrate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries,which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should...aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic serviee, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages,...

...say, "savour" each phrase, realizing the mass of content it has to the aesthetically sensitive mind : No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy,...service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, no manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals,...

...one might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should...service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, no manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals,...

...one might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should...service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, no manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals,...

...life and, consequently, from the matrix of reference and emotion available to an American novelist: No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors . . . nor ivied ruins ... no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures,...

...might enumerate the items of high civilization, äs it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should...left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and barely indeed a specific national name. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy,...