 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
 | Martin Samuel Vilas - 1904 - 80 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...stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wallflowers need ruin to make... | |
 | 1906 - 774 pagine
...patriotism of the wish which immediately succeeds these words: "May it be long before romance writers find congenial and easily handled themes either in...stalwart republic or in any characteristic and probable events of our individual life. Romance and poetry, lichens and wallflowers need ruins to make them... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 270 pagine
...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 dear native land." In each of Hawthorne's great romances the dramatis personae, are few — s.ome four or five. In character-drawing... | |
 | Theodore Stanton - 1909 - 524 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... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 pagine
...picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily !) "the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | John Albert Macy - 1913 - 368 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." Mr. Henry James seems to accept Hawthorne's view that his limitations were objective, and that he might... | |
 | 1880 - 886 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... | |
 | 1873 - 882 pagine
...and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily " (it must and shall be happily) " the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, 1 trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1983 - 1308 pagine
...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, Ȁ 0 / % ߀ 0 D 0 %... ߀ 0 @ р 0 # ߀ 0 : romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes cither in the annals of our stalwart Republic,... | |
 | John McWilliams - 1986 - 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 with my dear native land. The verb tenses of the passage show that Hawthorne would deny antiquities, shadows, and wrongs only... | |
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