 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...imagination, made little progress. In a note written to me at this time he says : — " I can't tell you when to expect an instalment of the Romance, if ever....encountered if I "enter. I wish God had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book." I invited him to come to Boston and have a cheerful week among his old... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1872 - 364 pages
...we have met with in one of our investigations leads us to conclude that this was to be the burden H2 of the Dolliver Romance — that strange conception...of Thoreau to it, because, from a tradition "which he told me about this house of mine, I got the idea of a deathless man, which is now taking a shape... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 370 pages
...of the imagination, made little progress. In a note written to me at this time he " I can't tell you when to expect an instalment of the Romance, if ever....encountered if I enter. I wish G-od had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book." I invited him to come to Boston and have a cheerful week among his old... | |
 | 1875 - 80 pages
...fearful pair, and if like shapes threatened him, no wonder that he said, when starting a new romance, " I linger at the threshold, and have a perception of...disagreeable phantasms to be encountered if I enter." Chillingworth is to me his most powerful creation. The wise scholar resolving upon revenge, fastening... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...to expeet an instalment of the Romanee, if ever. There is something preternatural in my reluetanee to begin. I linger at the threshold, and have a perception of very disagreeable phantasms to be eneountered if I enter. I wish God had given me the faculty of writing ft sunshiny book." I invited... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 310 pages
...himself to literary work. Mr. Fields gives some extracts from his letters : — " I can't tell you when to expect an instalment of the Romance, if ever....encountered if I enter. I wish God had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book." " I don't see much probability of my having the first chapter of the Komance... | |
 | Evangeline Maria O'Connor - 1882 - 308 pages
...himself to literary work. Mr. Fields gives some extracts from hi« letter* : — 14 1 can't tell you when to expect an instalment of the Romance, if ever....linger at the threshold, and have a perception of тегу disagreeable phantasm* 42 NATIIAKIKL HAWTHORNE. to IM rncnnntcrvd if I enter. I wich God had... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne - 1883 - 536 pages
...it through." The presentiment proved to be only too well founded. He had previously written : — " There is something preternatural in my reluctance...encountered if I enter. I wish God had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book." And again, in November, he says : " I foresee that there is little probability... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1884 - 522 pages
...beginning, he would be stimulated to continue. But, "there is something preternatural," he writes," in my reluctance to begin. I linger at the threshold, and have a perception of very disagreeable phantoms to be encountered if I enter. ... I don't see much probability of my having the first chapter... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Authors' spouses - 1884 - 496 pages
...beginning, he would be stimulated to continue. But, "there is something preternatural," he writes, " in my reluctance to begin. I linger at the threshold, and have a perception of very disagreeable phantoms to be encountered if I enter. ... I don't see much probability of my having the first chapter... | |
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There is something preternatural in my reluctance to begin. I linger at the threshold, and have a perception of very disagreeable phantasms to be encountered if I enter. I wish God had given me the faculty of writing a sunshiny book. 
