 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
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - English language - 1897 - 232 pages
...Plymouth, NH, May 19, 1864. There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at tirst see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust,...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. — James Russell Lowell. EXEKCISE I. STUDY OF THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES. Each pupil should read the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1897 - 580 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 that is tiiere ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 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 for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1898 - 462 pages
...the best criticism of his friend and brother artist : 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 ; "Pis as if a rough oak, that for ages... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Family secrets - 1898 - 384 pages
...strength 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 meet ; 'Tis as if a rough oak, that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom,... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - American literature - 1899 - 672 pages
...his God. CHAPTER XIII NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864 1 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." — LOWELL. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, a brilliant and original master of English prose writing, was born... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authors, American - 1899 - 268 pages
...satirical, but true and appreciative. Thus, Hawthorne: 179 There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking1 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. ^ His reference to Whittier, too, is... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Grail - 1899 - 116 pages
...smoothest of pebbles from Castaly's spring Impressed on his hard moral sense with a sling ? " HAWTHOENB. That you hardly at first see the strength that is...with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 512 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...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1900 - 96 pages
...peaceful oak-leaves for citizens saved ! " 230 HAWTHOKNE. " 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; 235 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the... | |
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