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 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 316 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 320 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 424 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiauitv. no mvsterv. no picturesque and eloomv wrong, nor anvin which they have their highest inspiration.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 418 pages
...even in his clumsiest tricks. He forces his apologies to sound like boasting. ' No author,' he says, ' can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily ' (it must and shall be happily !) 'the case with... | |
 | 1886 - 598 pages
...actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are and must needs be in America. No writer without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily the case with my dear native land. . . . Romance... | |
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