They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport... National Review - Стр. 4611860Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1882 - Страниц: 548
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - Страниц: 560
...observation of every sketch^ Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - Страниц: 554
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.) Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - Страниц: 156
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| 1887 - Страниц: 732
...passion," Hawthorne with rare frankness confesses, "there is sentiment; and even in what purport to l>c pictures of actual life we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect... | |
| William Leonard Courtney - 1888 - Страниц: 312
...passion," Hawthorne with rare frankness confesses, " there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - Страниц: 504
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| George William Curtis - 1894 - Страниц: 310
...fascination ; and the author says truly of them, in the Preface of 1851, "Even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver." There are sunny gleams upon the pages, but a strange, melancholy chill pervades the book. In " The... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - Страниц: 508
...observation of every sketch. ' Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and even in what purports to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. . . . The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1896 - Страниц: 496
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and even in what purports to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. . . . The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight... | |
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