 They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport...  National Review - Page 4611860Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 pages
...passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have aUegurv, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author9! touches have often an effect... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 pages
...Instead of passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, wo have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its...habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into tho reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author3!)... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...every sketch. Instead of passion, he observes, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. " Whether from lack of power," he continues, "or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...every sketch. Instead of passion, he observes, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. " Whether from lack of power," he continues, " or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...seldom, if ever, show any design on the writer's part to make them so. They have none of the abstruseness of idea, or obscurity of expression, which mark the...to prove that the allegorical turn which his tales are apt to take was not with him, as it often is, a sign of meagre or shallow imaginative endowments,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pages
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 pages
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
 | 1865 - 594 pages
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to IK; taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. * * The book, if you would see anything in it, requires... | |
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