 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,...  English Men of Letters - Pàgina 41editat per - 1894Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1861 - 814 pàgines
...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...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pàgines
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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 - 1860 - 316 pàgines
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pàgines
...without a trial can conceive," he says, apologising for the unpatriotic impulse which had led him abroad, "of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." But the flower of his fancy did not flourish except in its own bleak climate ; and THE MARBLE l'u'\... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pàgines
...his latest work, Transformation, he reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pàgines
...his latest work, Transformation, he reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 pàgines
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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 - 996 pàgines
...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...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
 | 1861 - 830 pàgines
...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...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
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