 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...  Littell's Living Age - Seite 1571853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1851 - 588 Seiten
...habit, wliich diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to...mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness; the merriest man... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 644 Seiten
...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, no» always so warmly it reused in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 Seiten
...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have aUegurv, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 Seiten
...habit, which diffuebs itsolf through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, wo have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 Seiten
...himself (and, he intimates, " with perfect sincerity and unreserve"), and compared by him to pale- tinted flowers that have blossomed in too retired a shade...reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humour; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | 1860 - 534 Seiten
...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to...mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of tameness ; the merriest man... | |
 | 1860 - 528 Seiten
...it by no means holds of the majority of his finished studies of character, that, in the place of " pictures of actual life, we have allegory not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver." But there is enough even in the early tales of which Mr. Hawthorne here speaks to prove that the allegorical... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 Seiten
...it by no means holds of the majority of his finished studies of character, that, in the place of " pictures of actual life, we have allegory not always...be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver." But there is enough even in the early tales of which Mr. Hawthorne here speaks to prove that the allegorical... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 Seiten
...habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to...mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 464 Seiten
...observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to bo pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always...mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man... | |
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