| Charles Raymond Barrett - 1900 - 264 halaman
...brutal misuse of the supernatural is perhaps the very lowest degradation of the art of fiction. But ' to mingle the marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavor than as any actual portion of the substance,' to quote from the preface to the ' House of the Seven Gables,' this... | |
| Charles Raymond Barrett - 1900 - 264 halaman
...brutal misuse of the supernatural is perhaps the very lowest degradation of the art of fiction. But ' to mingle the marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavor than as any actual portion of the substance,' to quote from the preface to the ' House of the Seven Gables,' this... | |
| 1901 - 562 halaman
...preface to "The House of the Seven Gables": "He [the writer of romance] will be wise, no doubt, to make very moderate use of the Privileges here stated, and, especially, to mingle the marvellous rather äs a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavor, than äs any portion of the actual dish offered to the... | |
| William Patten - 1905 - 390 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights, and deepen and enrich the shadows, of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...privileges here stated, and, especially, to mingle the marvelous rather as a slight, delicate, evanescent flavor, than as any portion of the actual substance... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 406 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights, and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...Marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavour, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly... | |
| Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 402 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights, and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...Marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavour, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly... | |
| Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 508 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights, and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...Marvellous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavour, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly... | |
| Richard Burton - 1909 - 382 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...privileges here stated, and, especially, to mingle the marvelous rather as a slight, delicate and evanescent flavor than as any portion of the actual substance... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1917 - 444 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of 15 the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly 20 be said, however, to commit a literary crime even if he disregard this caution. In the present work,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1919 - 338 halaman
...atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights, and deepen and enrich the shadows, of the picture. He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate...Marvellous rather as a slight, delicate and evanescent flavour, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly... | |
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