 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,...  The Working man - Сторінка 109Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Aeschylus - 1905 - 372 стор.
...banks of the Nile. It is just this kind of sorrow and 1 Hawthorne {Marble Faun, Preface) speaks " of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong," and Motley, after reading the romance, says, " I like those shadowy, weird, fantastic,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1905 - 392 стор.
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 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 стор.
...In the preface to "The Marble Faun " Hawthorne wrote : " No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosper- romance? ° f ity in broad and simple daylight."... | |
 | 1906 - 774 стор.
...writers continue to go abroad when with Hawthorne, their genius "rebels at the difficulty of writing 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, as is happily... | |
 | Theodore Stanton - 1909 - 524 стор.
...complained as late as 1859, in the preface to "The Marble Faun": No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 стор.
...clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. "No author," he says, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily" (it must and shall be happily... | |
 | John Albert Macy - 1913 - 368 стор.
...actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive the difficulty of writing...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily... | |
 | 1895 - 814 стор.
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 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 354 стор.
...finding romance in the commonplace United States of the present. "No author," he says, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily the case with my dear native... | |
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