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
| Frederick Burwick - 2010 - Страниц: 218
...purport to be picmres of acmal life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed m its hahiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver" (Complete Writings, 1:liv). As did the venerable Dt. Dryasdust, Sir Waleer Scott's antiquarian alter... | |
| Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Marianne Ping Huang, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen - 2004 - Страниц: 356
...Twice-told Tales, for instance, varies the pattern in the following way: "even in what purports to be pictures of actual life we have allegory, not always...to 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... | |
| Frederic Tuten - 2005 - Страниц: 164
...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 - 2006 - Страниц: 442
...obsenation 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... | |
| Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person - 2008 - Страниц: 398
...that it is "tame," that "[i]nstead of passion, there is sentiment," that "even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood" (CE, 9:5). 14 Nine months later, in the preface to the December 1851 publication of The Snow-Image,... | |
| Herbert Read - 1929 - Страниц: 248
...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 162 Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| 1868 - Страниц: 616
...observation of every sketcli. 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... | |
| Herbert Read - 1929 - Страниц: 248
...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 162 Author's touches have often an effect... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1864 - Страниц: 658
...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... | |
| 1853 - Страниц: 854
...every sketch. Instead of passion, he observes, 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," he continues, " or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have... | |
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