 | 1860 - 528 стор.
...easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable event of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy,...lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." These passages throw much light on the secret affinities of Mr Hawthorne's genius. But it would be... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 стор.
...easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable event of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy,...lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." These passages throw much light on the secret affinities of Mr Hawthorne's genius. But it would be... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 стор.
...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,...wallflowers, need ruin to make them grow. In re-writing this romance, the author was somewhat surprised to see the extent to which he had introduced descriptions... | |
 | 1868 - 548 стор.
...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,...lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." The absence of hard outline and broad light is especially demanded by another well-marked tendency... | |
 | 1868 - 978 стор.
...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easilyhandled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,...lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." The absence of hard outline and broad light is especially demanded by another well-marked tendency... | |
 | Paxton (Mass. : Town) - 1868 - 92 стор.
...find congenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our own stalwart Republic, or in characteristic and probable events of our individual...lichens and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." Is not the hope of the novelist in a fair way to be disappointed, while the aspiration of the advocate... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 стор.
...actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. . . . Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." " It is justifiable for a romancer to sting the curiosity ol his readers with a mystery, only on the... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 стор.
...actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. . . . Romanc" and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow." " It is justifiable for a romancer to sting the curiosity ol his readers with a mystery, only on the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 418 стор.
...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,...Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wallflowers need ruins to make them grow.' If, that is, I am forced to confess that poetry and romance are absent, I... | |
 | 1879 - 686 стор.
...depiction of passion that nice sense of light and shade evinced in her delineation of character. " Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." With these words and others like them Hawthorne excuses the location of his " Marble Faun " in Italy... | |
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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,... 
