 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, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily) " the case...  The Living Age - Pagina 1971873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1887 - 638 pagina’s
...impossibility of writing such a romance with his own country for its suitable site—where, he says, " there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,"—yet it is still his " dear native land," and we must give him up to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily (lie case with my dear native land. It PREFACE. will be... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 318 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 316 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pagina’s
...Transformation, he 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...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pagina’s
...Transformation, he 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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 pagina’s
...be so terribly 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...wrong, nor- anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long,... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pagina’s
...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 but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because... | |
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