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,... National Review - الصفحة 4541860عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...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...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple...trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...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,...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'\... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor- anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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...stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 978
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes in the annals of our stalwart republic."... | |
| 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...the most prosaic of all countries. " No author," he says, in the preface to " Transformation," — "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...as is happily the case with my dear native land." There is something characteristic of American patriotism in this effort to make out that the absence... | |
| Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily ' (it muit and shall be happily 1) ' the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance* writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart... | |
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