 | 1851 - 552 halaman
...admirers. In the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, our author claims for the book " a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel "; and he further tells us, that " it has been no part of his object, however, to describe local manners,... | |
 | 1851 - 594 halaman
...admirers. In the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, our author claims for the book " a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel " ; and he further tells us, that " it has been no part of his object, however, to describe local manners,... | |
 | Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 halaman
...WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The former—while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1875 - 640 halaman
...Romance, H need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to iu feshion and material, which he would not have felt himself...entitled to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novell The lattei form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 638 halaman
...writer calls his work a Romanee, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitnde, both as to its fashion and material, which he would...possible, but to the probable and ordinary course of man's experienee. The former — while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subjeet itself to laws, and while... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 halaman
...Romance" he is careful to call this, as all his other longer works, in order that he may claim that "latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ;" and nowhere does Hawthorne avail himself of this latitude with more consummate skill, or " mingle... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 halaman
...Romance" he is careful to call this, as all his other longer works, in order that he may claim that "latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ;" and nowhere does Hawthorne avail himself of this latitude with more consummate skill, or " mingle... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 656 halaman
...WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need luivdly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The f ormer — while, as a work of art, it must rigidly sub;, ject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably... | |
 | 1895 - 794 halaman
...his position as a writer of romance, and " thereby wishes to claim," he says, " a certain latitude in fashion and material, which he would not have felt...entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel ; " because, as he justly remarks, the novel aims at fidelity, not only to the possible, but to the... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 362 halaman
...his work a Romance," says Hawthorne, 3 "it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which...probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The former—while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably... | |
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When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel. The latter... 
