 It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty...  The National Review - Сторінка 4511860Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 стор.
...(which afterwards ruined THB MABBLE FAUN) of endeavouring to escape by violence from his environment. The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought...imagination through the opaque substance of to-day ; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily ; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible... | |
 | Henry James - 1879 - 210 стор.
...marvellous gift as a story-teller. . . . Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...myself back into another age ; or to insist on creating a semblance of a world out of airy matter. . . . The wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 624 стор.
...been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...of some actual circumstance. The wiser effort would have.been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 626 стор.
...been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at everj' moment, the impalpable beauty of my soapbubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1892 - 356 стор.
...been something now in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...some actual circumstance. The wiser effort would have beeii to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1892 - 358 стор.
...been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...rude contact of some actual circumstance. The wiser eifort Would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 стор.
...marvellous gift as a story-teller. . . . Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...myself back into another age ; or to insist on creating a semblance of a world out of airy matter. . . . The wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought... | |
 | 1861 - 864 стор.
...subject-matter of any narrative with which his own imagination can successfully deal. Sometimes he apologizes for this idealistic limitation to his artistic aims....of my soapbubble was broken by the rude contact of sonic actual circumstance. The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1898 - 362 стор.
...been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to iling myself back into another age, or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 438 стор.
...been something new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so...moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was brok°n by the rude contact of some actual circumstance. The wiser effort would have been to diffuse... | |
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