 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...  The Library Magazine - Sida 891887Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1851 - 588 sidor
...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...reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor, the tenderest woman,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 584 sidor
...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...from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author9! touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 sidor
...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 into tho reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the Author3!)... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 sidor
...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...mind without a shiver. " Whether from lack of power," he continues, "or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of lameness ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 sidor
...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...mind without a shiver. " Whether from lack of power," he continues, " or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect of tameness... | |
 | 1860 - 528 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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...reserve, the Author's touches have often an effect of lameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at his broadest humor ; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | 1865 - 594 sidor
...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...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to IK; taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. * * The book, if you would see anything in it, requires... | |
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