The Development of the American Short Story: An Historical SurveyHarper & brothers, 1923 - 388 strani |
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Stran 102 - 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 to be pictures of actual life we have allegory, not; always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Stran 137 - ... full of prejudice are the usual animadversions against those tales of effect many fine examples of which were found in the earlier numbers of Blackwood. The impressions produced were wrought in a legitimate sphere of action, and constituted a legitimate although sometimes an exaggerated interest. They were relished by every man of genius: although there were found many men of genius who condemned them without just ground. The true critic will but demand that the design intended be accomplished,...
Stran 10 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Stran 127 - If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul — that I have deduced this terror only from its legitimate sources, and urged it only to its legitimate results.
Stran 24 - For my part I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. It is the play of thought, and sentiment and language; the weaving in of characters, lightly yet expressively delineated; the familiar and faithful exhibition of scenes in common life; and the half concealed vein of humour that is often playing through the whole — these are among what I aim at, and upon which I felicitate myself in proportion as I think I succeed.
Stran 136 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect...
Stran 108 - I bid him welcome; trusting that there will be a pervading spirit and a moral, even should we fail to find them, done up neatly and condensed into the final sentence.
Stran 94 - There is a grossness in the conceptions of my countrymen ; they will not be convinced that any good thing may consist with what they call idleness; they can anticipate nothing but evil of a young man who neither studies physic, law, nor gospel, nor opens a store, nor takes to farming but manifests an incomprehensible disposition to be satisfied with what his father left him.
Stran 149 - America is now wholly given over to add mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.
Stran 171 - The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river, - clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by. The long train of mules, dragging masses of...
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