 | 462 sidor
...Letter ;" " The House of Ike Seven Gables," Sfc. fyc.) There is Hawthorne, with genius so striking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; Tis as if a rm ;h oak that for ages had stood, With hisgnarleu bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | 1871 - 808 sidor
...purposes of passion ? "There is Hawthorne," writes Lowell in his brilliant Fable for the Critics — " There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there" — and in Hawthorne there really is a true and effective force. But is it quite sufficient for the... | |
 | 1851 - 318 sidor
...Letter ;" " The House of the Seven Gables," fyc. fyc!) There is Hawtliorne, with genins so striking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, S0 earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; 'Tis as if a... | |
 | 1854 - 604 sidor
...own damage and discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : TJTere is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; "Pis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches, like ribs of the... | |
 | 1854 - 524 sidor
...discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | 1855 - 784 sidor
...plumped into Hclicoij up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere ho took his first taste. HAWTrfOBXE. There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare, That you hardly atfirst see the strength that is there ; . . . He's a John IJunyan FouijuO, a Puritan Tieck. . . .... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 sidor
...Hut he plumped into Helicon up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; "Pis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 sidor
...waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. great, " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | 1860 - 598 sidor
...American soil. As Lowell sings of him— " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare, That yon hardly at first see the strength that is there: A...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. 'Tis as if a rough oak, that for ages had stood, With his gnarled, bony branches, like ribs of the... | |
 | 1860 - 600 sidor
...singular flower to find on American soil. As Lowell sings of him — " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare, That you hardly at first see the strength that is there : A frame so robnst, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth a descent from... | |
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Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood. Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe ; His strength is so tender, his... 
