 | 1868 - 548 pages
...gradual, he proceeds — " 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,... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...gradual, he proceeds : — " 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 aud observation of every sketch. Instead of p:ission, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1871 - 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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1873 - 776 pages
...early manhood, he says, ' They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...through the feeling and observation of every sketch.' But though mystical in style, he is not obscure or colourless; and in the following exquisite sentence... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 448 pages
...himself, when he says : — ' 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.' Those who have read the sketches will attest the... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...himself, when he says : — ' They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses...purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, N I ;6 POETS AND NOVELISTS. later works well exhibits the marvellous faculty he possessed of extracting... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 pages
...passion, there is sentiment ; and even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, N not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.' Those who have read the sketches will attest the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American fiction - 1876 - 592 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. Whethei from lack of power, or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 326 pages
...true of all his works : " They have the pale tint of flowers that blossom 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 miud without a shiver. Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 310 pages
...of all his works : " They have the pale tint of flowers that blossom in too retired a shade-—the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself...what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allefjory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood, as to be taken into... | |
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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... 
