 | william harison ainsworth - 1869 - 786 стор.
...shape me — Ever Removed ! Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman Past, muses Mr. Hawthorne, all matters that we handle or dream of now-adays look evanescent and visionary alike ; and he pictures accordingly his four chief figures in " Transformation" as persons conscious of this... | |
 | 1869 - 742 стор.
...shape me — Ever Removed ! Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman Past, muses Mr. Hawthorne, all matters that we handle or dream of now-adays look evanescent and visionary alike ; arid he pictures accordingly his four chief figures in " Transformation" as persons conscious of... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 546 стор.
...reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death - swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the...blocks of granite wherewith the Romans built their livas. Perhaps it even contributed to the fanciful merriment which was just now their mood. When we... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 540 стор.
...others, twisted out of the commonest stuff of human existence — may seem not widely different frcro the texture of all our lives. Side by side with the...visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we art seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreanv character of the present, as compared with the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 550 стор.
...are but half as real here as elsewhere. Viewed through this medium, our narrative — into which are Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman Past, all matters that we handle or dream of now*, days look evanescent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 560 стор.
...Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman Past, all matters that we handle or dream of nowaday-; look evanescent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we an seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreamy character of the present, as compared with the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1897 - 534 стор.
...stuff of human existence — may seem not widely different from the texture of all our lives. • v Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman | Past, all matters that we handle or dream of nowa- \ / days look evanescent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 стор.
...unsubstantial threads, intermixed with others twisted out of the commonest stuff of human existence—may seem not widely different from the texture of all...we are seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreaming character of the present, as compared with the square blocks of granite wherewith the Romans... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 стор.
...in a by-gone life . . . that the present moment is pressed down or crowded out', Hawthorne observed. 'Side by side with the massiveness of the Roman Past,...matters, that we handle or dream of, now-a-days, look evanescent.'77 We also enrich life by stretching present feelings backwards, like Benjamin Constant's... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 1988 - 242 стор.
...and displace the present, creating a perception of such might and density in a by-gone life, . . . that the present moment is pressed down or crowded...dream of nowadays look evanescent and visionary alike. (MF, p. 2) This passage comes at the very start, warning that the stony permanence of Rome's past not... | |
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It is a vague sense of ponderous remembrances; a perception of such weight and density in a by-gone life, of which this spot was the centre, that the present moment is pressed down or crowded out, and our individual affairs and interests are but half... 
