 The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.  The Bookman - Page 6161918Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 640 pages
...here lay its curious and thrilling power. In the preface to " Twicetold Tales " he tells us frankly, " The book, if you would see anything in it, requires...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages." And then he adds, coming still nearer to the mark. "They are not the talk of a secluded man with his... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...would suppose, will hardly shed warm tears at his deepest pathos. The book, if you would sec any thing in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in wliich it was written ; if opened in the sunshine, it i* apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 622 pages
...would suppose, will hardly shed warm tears nt hie deepest pathos. The book, if you would soe any thing in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. evnaíbilüy, may be understood and frit by any body, who will give himself the trouble to read it,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 644 pages
...deepest pathos. The book, if you would see any thing in it, requires to be read in tho clear, br iwn, twilight atmosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine, it ia apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. 1 With the forogoing characteristics, proper... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pages
...HAWTHORNE. 483 it in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written ; confessing that if opened in the sunshine it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. All prizes, no blanks, the pages are not, whether read, as Jack Falstaff says, " by day or night, or... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...would suppose, will hardly shed warm tears at his deepest pathos. The book, if you would see any thiug in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. With the foregoing characteristics, proper to the productions of a person in retirement (which happened... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...would suppose, will hardly shed warm tears at his deepest pathos. The book, if you would see any thing in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. With the foregoing characteristics, proper to the productions of a person in retirement (which happened... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1861 - 450 pages
...NKY.'-STBKJiT 6QUAKK ROMANCE OF A DULL LIFE RY THE AUTHOR OF ' MORNING CLOUDS " AND " THE AFTERNOON OF LIFE ' " The book, if you would see anything in it, requires...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages" JT. HiWIHORNE LONDON LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS t 9 io THOSE \vno KNOW THE WEIGHT AND WORTH... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 302 pages
...would suppose, will hardly shed warm tears at his deepest pathos. The book, if you would see any thing in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight...to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages. With the foregoing characteristics, proper to the productions of a person in retirement, (which happened... | |
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