[오늘의 한문장] 여인의 초상 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

But I recall vividly enough that the response most elicited, in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the artist a questionable aid to concentration when they themselves are not to be the subject of it.
- P12

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[오늘의 한문장] 여인의 초상 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

It is a long novel, and I was long in writing it; I remember being again much occupied with it, the following year, during a stay of several weeks made in Venice. I had rooms on Riva Schiavoni, at the top of a house near the passage leading off to San Zaccaria; the waterside life, the wondrous lagoon spread before me, and the ceaseless human chatter of Venice came in at my windows, to which I seem to myself to have been constantly driven, in the fruitless fidget composition, as if to see whether, out in the blue channel, the ship of some right suggestion, of some phrase, of the next happy twist of my subject, the next true touch for my canvas, mightn‘t come into sight.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 여인의 초상 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, from month to month, in "Macmillan‘s Magazine"; which was to be for me one of the last occasions of simultaneous "serialization" in the two countries that the changing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 여인의 초상 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

PREFACE

"The Portrait of a Lady" was,, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "Roderick" and like"The American," it had been designed for publication in "The Atlantic Monthly," where it began to appear in 1880. - P10