When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making... The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Page 311Full view - About this book
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1887 - 472 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so 136 A FABLE FOR CRITICS. That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight ; Only, while she was kneading... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...a roan as she wanted. So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stnff for a woman prepared. And she could not have hit a...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man.' ' Influence. — The drift and weight of his thought and art are on the side of puritv, tenderness,... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1886 - 568 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. All this, full of humor, and nominally put into a dramatic form, is of course genuine criticism. It... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared. Ann she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man." 3. That Hawthorne... | |
| William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man." 3. That Hawthorne will ever be what we call a very popular novelist is open to much doubt. The habits... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1889 - 572 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. All this, full of humor, and nominally put into a dramatic form, is of course genuine criticism. It... | |
| William Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared. And she could nol have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man." 3. That Hawthorne will... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 312 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...delight, That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight ; Only, while she was kneading and shaping the clay, She sang to her work in her sweet childish... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1890 - 452 pages
...was shaping him, clay was • not granted For making .so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...delight. That she tried it again, shortly after, in Ihvight ; Only, while she was kneading and shaping the clay, She sang to her work in her sweet childish... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 118 pages
...Nature was shaping him clay, was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...delight, That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight; Only, while she was kneading and shaping the clay, She sang to her work in her sweet childish... | |
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