 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1884 - 632 Seiten
...land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easi 1 vhandled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart Republic,...lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow." Now, what is to be understood from this passage ? It assumes, in the first place, that a work of art,... | |
 | 1879 - 686 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 652 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 318 Seiten
...is happily 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...lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow. In re-writing these volumes, the author was somewhat surprised to see the extent to which he had introduced... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 Seiten
...the case with my dear native land. It PREFACE. XI will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily handled themes either...lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow. In re-writing these volumes, the author was somewhat surprised to see the extent to which he had introduced... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 Seiten
...is happily 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...lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow. In re-writing these volumes, the author was somewhat surprised to see the extent to which he had introduced... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 302 Seiten
...is happily the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily handled themes either...characteristic and probable events of our individual lives. Eomance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow. In re-writing these... | |
 | 1860 - 528 Seiten
...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, or in any characteristic and probable event of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make... | |
 | 1860 - 534 Seiten
...native land. It will bo very long, I 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 event of our individual lives. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 Seiten
...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 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... | |
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... 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, as is happily the case with my dear native land. It... 
