 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 oldal
...his peculiar grace of style. Of the "Twice-Told Tales" Hawthorne says, in a bit of self-criticism: "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed...coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through-the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is sentiment ; and,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 414 oldal
...Twice-Told Tales should have gained what vogue they did than that it was so little and so gradual. They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed...shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which dif( fusesMtself through the feeling and observation *' of every sketch. Instead of passion there is... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1902 - 322 oldal
...his incapacity to yield himself with fullness of power even to this reflective or creative art : — "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed...the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead ofwhjjision there is sentiment; and, even in what t purport to be pictures of actual life, we have... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 536 oldal
...of perfection was yet to be added. The best criticism of these tales is that of Hawthorne himself: "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade." There is not enough real flesh and blood in them. Their natural beauty is often like that of caverns... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 272 oldal
...OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE IN a notable passage, Hawthorne has said of his own Twice-Told Tales that " they have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade. . . . Instead of passion there is sentiment. . . . Whether from lack of power or an unconquerable reserve,... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1904 - 190 oldal
...criticism upon these stories, written many years afterward, he accounted for their negative character — " the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade " — by his way of life while composing them. It had been a hermit life, a life of shadows, yet now... | |
 | L. Dhaleine - 1905 - 522 oldal
...read any unacknowledged page that you may suppose to be mine. л. They have the pale tint of (lowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which dill'uses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion, there is... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 oldal
...frail in construction quite to merit the inference of Hawthorne's pretty deprecation. They have not " the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade." They are hardly flowers at all, but grasses and ferns. And while he exaggerates in saying that "if... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 oldal
...The adjectives tend to smother the verbs. " They have," said Hawthorne of his " Twice-Told Tales," " the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired...through the feeling and observation of every sketch." But no such charge can be laid at the door of " Rab and his Friends." The very dumbness of Rab, his... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1918 - 306 oldal
...parable. His own words about his first collection of stories, Twice-Told, Tales, have often been quoted: "They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade. " Yet they are for the most part exquisitely written. After a couple of years in the Boston CustomHouse,... | |
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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. 
