 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,...  The National Review - Page 452edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pages
...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 - 316 pages
...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 - 302 pages
...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 - 600 pages
...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 - 424 pages
...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 - 548 pages
...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 - 978 pages
...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 - 378 pages
...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 - 740 pages
...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 - 412 pages
...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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