 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...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Page 311Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; 'T is as if a rough oak that forages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...so exquisite. •There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first sec culling back the departed life fur a transitory glow,...laid forever, still to draw a tear of pity, or a -? . . When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a roan as she wanted.... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...wrote the following lines in his Fable for Critics : "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...worth a descent from Olympus to meet : 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his yn.o led bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1886 - 568 pages
...Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun" : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; "T is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1889 - 572 pages
...Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun " : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; 'T is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...XIII. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864). " There is Hawthorne, with genius 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." LOWELL. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, a brilliant and original master of English prose writing, was born in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1890 - 452 pages
...waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; T is as if a rough oak that for ages... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 312 pages
...And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet, Is worth A descent from Olympus to meet ; T is as if a rough oak that for ages... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1890 - 562 pages
...taste. so sin-inking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength "There is Hawthorne, with genins that is there; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to stood, With his gnarled bony branches like... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 118 pages
...And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there; , 1 A frame so robust, with a nature so / sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet, Is... | |
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