 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 472 pages
...romances with unforgettable figures." III. "'When a writer calls his work a romance? -writes Hawthorne, 'it need hardly be observed that he -wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and materials' This fashion is shown by the dimly outlined characters in 'The House of the Seven Gables'... | |
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 480 pages
...III. "'When a writer calls his work a romance? writes Hawthorne, 'it need hardly be observed t/iat he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and materials' This fashion is shown by the dimly outlined characters in 'The House of the Seven Gables'... | |
 | Richard Burton - 1909 - 382 pages
...Having " The House of the Seven Gables " in mind, he says : " When a writer calls his work a romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim...is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not only to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The former, while... | |
 | Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 402 pages
...scrupulously he had defined the limits, of his chosen art. ' When a writer calls his work a Romance it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both 1 From a poem by Lascelles Abercrombie. as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt... | |
 | Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 508 pages
...scrupulously he had defined the limits, of his chosen art. • When a writer calls bis work a Romance it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both i From a poem by LascelJe* Abercrombie. as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 406 pages
...scrupulously he had defined the limits, of his chosen art. ' When a writer calls his work a Romance it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both 1 From a poem by Lascelles Abercrombie. as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1911 - 502 pages
...calls his work a romance, it need hardly he observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, hoth as to its fashion and material, which he would not...of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute 5 fidelity, not merely to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience.... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 398 pages
...spirit. Hawthorne defends this kind of romance as follows : "When a writer calls his work a romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its c fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1917 - 444 pages
...unfinished by Hawthorne, THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES PREFACE WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim...writing a Novel. The latter form of composition is pre- 5 sumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the possible, but to the probable and... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1919 - 338 pages
...Index of Hawthorne's Works," by EM O'Connor, 1882. PREFACE WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fasjnat^andjiia.terial, which he would not have feit himself entitled to assume, had he professed to... | |
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When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel... 
