 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1902 - 474 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...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,... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1902 - 322 pages
...or creative art : — "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead ofwhjjision there is sentiment; and, even in what t purport to be pictures of actual life, we have... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 pages
...bit of self-criticism: "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver." 1. This was done in 1686. 2. The colonists gave... | |
 | L. Dhaleine - 1905 - 522 pages
...(lowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which dill'uses itself through the feeling and observation of every...not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of llesh and blood as to he taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether fron» lack of power,... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 270 pages
...tone of his sketches : " They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. . . . The book, if you would see anything in it,... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 pages
...illustrating their common quality. What this is Hawthorne himself sufficiently indicates in saying, " Instead of passion there is sentiment; and even in...purport to be pictures of actual life we have allegory." But his consciousness of his limitations does not exorcise them, though his candor, which is charming,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1915 - 390 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit which ' diffuses...warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as tq be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether \ from lack of power, or an unconquerable... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 pages
...Hawthorne of his " Twice-Told Tales," " the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...through the feeling and observation of every sketch." But no such charge can be laid at the door of " Rab and his Friends." The very dumbness of Rab, his... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1918 - 372 pages
...notice in his tales. ' ' They have the pale tint of flowers that blossom in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...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 uncontrollable... | |
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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... 
