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" 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... "
American Literature - Page 307
by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 pages
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

1851 - 588 pages
...vogue they did, than that it was so little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers iliat blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, wliich diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 pages
...should have gained what voguo they did, than that it was so little and 90 gradual. They have the palo tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade...what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have aUegurv, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 644 pages
...whut vogue they did, than that it wne so little and so gradual. They have tho pale tint of (lowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness...purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, no» always so warmly it reused in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 pages
...Tale«' should have gained what vogue thoy did, than that it was so little and eo gradual. They hare the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired...shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuebs itsolf through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment;...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 29

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...flowers that have blossomed in too retired a shade — marked by the coolness of a meditative hnbit, nd the host painters have seized, with the same instinct, upon golden tresses. A walk through he observes, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory,...
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National Review, Volume 11

1860 - 528 pages
...Tales should have gained what vogue they did, than that it was so little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observati&n of every sketch.. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to...
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The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and ..., Volume 2

1865 - 594 pages
...perfect yet written : "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shndt — the coolness of a meditative habit which diffuses...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to IK; taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. * * The book, if you would see anything in it, requires...
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Twice-told Tales, Volume 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 464 pages
...TALES should have gained what vogue they did, than that it was so little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired...passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to bo pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh...
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The Southern Review, Volume 7

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...he had to make in the wilderness of unrecognition. ' They [the tales] have the pale tint of flowerg that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 99

1868 - 978 pages
...gained what vogue they did, than that it was so little and so gradual, he proceeds : — " They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired...meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling aud observation of every sketch. Instead of p:ission, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport...
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