 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1851 - 594 pages
...many new 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,...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,... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 552 pages
...many new 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,...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 Hawthorne - History - 1875 - 640 pages
...UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., CAMBRIDGE. -m PREFACE. QVHM a write- calls his work a 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 638 pages
...HOP. UNIVERSITY PRESS : JOHN WILSON & SON, CAMBRIDGE. PREFACE. HEN a 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 not have felt himself entitled to assume,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
...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 - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | New England - 1895 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - American literature - 1894 - 240 pages
...He says, in the preface to The House of the Seven Gables : " When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim...fashion and material, which he would not have felt entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a novel." This very romance, however, has, with all... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - University extension - 1897 - 476 pages
...Ilmrthorne's Preface to 'Turice-Told Tales' (edition of 1851). " 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 fashio:i and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume ha.l he professed to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Family secrets - 1898 - 384 pages
...describes The House of the Seven Gables. "When a writer calls his work a romance," writes the author, "it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and materials." This latitude is shown by the dimly outlined characters. The old spinster, full of a dreary... | |
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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... 
