 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,...  Confessions and Criticisms - Page 84by Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 pages
...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pages
...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pages
...without a 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...as is happily the case with my dear native land." But the flower of his fancy did not flourish except in its own bleak climate ; and THE MARBLE l'u'\... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pages
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 pages
...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...affording him a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easilyhandled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...instead of his own country, as the site of a romance, by pleading that no author, without a trial, could conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about...writers may find congenial and easily handled themes in the annals of our stalwart republic." It was not very long first. But Mr. Hawthorne's apologetic... | |
 | 1872 - 740 pages
...where there is no shadow, no 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 dear native land." There is something characteristic of American patriotism in this effort to make out that the absence... | |
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