 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...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 204edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1851 - 644 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1851 - 584 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1851 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...flowers that have blossomed in too retired a shade — marked by the coolness of a meditative hnbit, nd the host painters have seized, with the same instinct,...instantly settle this point. There is not a single female lameness ; the merriest man can hardly contrive to laugh at hiз broadest humor; the tenderest woman,... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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