 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 Great Republic - Stran 264uredili: - 1912Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1861 - 814 strani
...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 strani
...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 strani
...trial can conceive," he says, apologising for the unpatriotic impulse which had led him abroad, "of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 strani
...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 316 strani
...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers... | |
 | 1860 - 534 strani
...reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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... | |
 | 1860 - 528 strani
...reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 strani
...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of those special... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 strani
...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers... | |
 | 1861 - 830 strani
...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic... | |
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