 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 стор.
...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 стор.
...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,...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 стор.
...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,...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 стор.
...acquires that knowledge of a country, at once flexible and profound, which may justify him in endeavouring to idealize its traits. Italy, as the site of his...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 - 548 стор.
...Transformation : — " Italy, as the site of his romance, was chiefly valuable to the author as affording him a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities...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 - 978 стор.
...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easilyhandled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 стор.
...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...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes in the annals of our stalwart republic."... | |
 | 1872 - 740 стор.
...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... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 412 стор.
...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily ' (it muit and shall be happily 1) ' the case with my dear 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... | |
 | Henry James - 1879 - 206 стор.
...of many Americans who have tried to write novels and to lay the scene of them in the western world. "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...as is happily the case with my dear native land." The perusal of Hawthorne's American Note-Books operates as a practical commentary upon this somewhat... | |
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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,... 
