...without a trial can conceive," he says, apologising for the unpatriotic impulse which had led him abroad, "of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...as is happily the case with my dear native land." But the flower of his fancy did not flourish except in its own bleak climate ; and THE MARBLE l'u'\...

...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable...

...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable...

...acquires that knowledge of a country, at once flexible and profound, which may justify him in endeavouring to idealize its traits. Italy, as the site of his...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,...

...Transformation : — " Italy, as the site of his romance, was chiefly valuable to the author as affording him a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable...

...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...trust, before romance-writers may find congenial and easilyhandled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any characteristic and probable...

...instead of his own country, as the site of a romance, by pleading that no author, without a trial, could conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance writers may find congenial and easily handled themes in the annals of our stalwart republic."...

...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,...as is happily the case with my dear native land." There is something characteristic of American patriotism in this effort to make out that the absence...

...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily ' (it muit and shall be happily 1) ' the case with my dear native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romance* writers may find congenial and easily-handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart...

...the fierce debate which involved its life. Yet eight years later Hawthorne wrote with calm ennui : " No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...as is happily the case with my dear native land." Is crime never romantic, then, until distance ennobles it ? Or were the tragedies of Puritan life so...