 | New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 588 pages
...tint of flowers iliat blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, wliich diffuses itself through the feeling and observation...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | 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, upon golden tresses. A walk through he observes, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade— the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...little and so gradual. 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 observati&n of every sketch.. Instead of passion there is sentiment ; and, even in what purport to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver. Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 464 pages
...little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...passion, there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to bo pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...unrecognition. ' They [the tales] have the pale tint of flowerg that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...through the feeling and observation of every sketch Whether from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve, the author's touches have often an effect... | |
| |
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... 
