 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 common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...  Magazine of Western History - Pagina 61888Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1883 - 872 pagine
...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." April 5th, 1855, Mr.... | |
 | 1895 - 794 pagine
...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. . . . Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers, need ruin to make them grow." I think we have... | |
 | 1885 - 248 pagine
...to cancel them." Italy, as the site of his romance, was chiefly valuable to him as affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would...individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wall flowers need ruin to make them grow." John Lathrop Motley was in Rome with him at the time he... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 284 pagine
...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case...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... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - 1887 - 318 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 pagine
...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...trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 550 pagine
...antiquity, no mystery » no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1894 - 544 pagine
...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case...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... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 pagine
...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." Is crime never romantic, then, until distance ennobles it? Or were the tragedies of Puritan life so... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 pagine
...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." The perusal of Hawthorne's American Note-Books operates as a practical commentary upon this somewhat... | |
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