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,... Initial Studies in American Letters - Seite 93von Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 221 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1884 - 632 Seiten
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted on as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy army, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 Seiten
...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...common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 316 Seiten
...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...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 Seiten
...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...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 Seiten
...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...wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in brood and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It PREFACE. XI will be... | |
| 1860 - 528 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 Seiten
...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...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers... | |
| 1861 - 838 Seiten
...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 - 996 Seiten
...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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