...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...native land. It will be very long, I trust, before romancewriters may find congenial and easily handled themes either in the annals of our stalwart republic,...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...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...

...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'\...

...his latest work, Transformation, he reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...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...

...his latest work, Transformation, he reiterates as his excuse for laying the scene in Italy, that " no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty...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...

...Brook Farm experience, were passed, as he himself tells us, in a country where there were ' no shadows, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight,' — in a town and a society which had and could have nothing — or almost nothing — of those special...

...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic...

...trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a fiction about a country where there is no shadow, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything...commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight. He chose Italy, he says, as the site of his fancied creation, because it afforded a sort of poetic...