 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. Whether from...  Scribner's Magazine ... - Page 701908Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor, the tenderest woman,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. " Whether from lack of power," he continues, "or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at hiŠ· broadest humor; the tenderest woman, one would... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of tamencss ; the meniest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humour ; the teuderest woman,... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humour ; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve,...Author's touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman, one would... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness.' The author, he continues, ' on the internal evidence of his sketches, came to be regarded... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humour ; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be token into the reader's mind without a, shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humour ; the tcnderest woman,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1871 - 302 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 268 pages
...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman,... | |
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