 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
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 528 pagina’s
...involved its life. Yet eight years later Hawthorne wrote with calm ennui: " 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." Is crime never romantic,... | |
 | Henry James - 1879 - 210 pagina’s
...to write novels, and to lay the scone of them in the Western world. " 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." The perusal of Hawthorne's... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 506 pagina’s
...involved its life. Yet eight years later Hawthorne wrote with calm ennui : " 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 ' ylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land." Is crime never romantic,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pagina’s
...Faun, he reminds us, as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, " that 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. Komance and Poetry,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pagina’s
...Faun, he reminds us, as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, " that 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. Romance and Poetry,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 546 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1884 - 622 pagina’s
...be so terribly insisted on as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance...no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy army, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad aud simple daylight, as is happily the case... | |
 | Flora McDonald Williams - 1886 - 300 pagina’s
...abroad to seek in ideal Italy material for his crowning work of genius, that '' no one, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow or mystery, no gloomy wrong or picturesque ruin," to inspire the ambitious pen of poet or novelist.... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 284 pagina’s
...be so terribly insisted on 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,... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - 1887 - 318 pagina’s
...difficulties—Hawthorne. I quote from the preface to the Marble Faun: " No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance...gloomy 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,... | |
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