 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
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1921 - 614 pages
...compliments to Whittier and Richard H. Dana, he goes on to say: "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; "Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had... | |
 | John Louis Haney - American literature - 1923 - 484 pages
...and erect, Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect. 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. Here's Cooper, who's written six volumes to show He's as good as a lord: well, let's grant that he's... | |
 | William Harris Elson - Reading (Elementary) - 1923 - 100 pages
...responded to his charm. Lowell describes him as follows : "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." stories, as he addresses an eager audience... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...have been carefully plotted before. ... 895 "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare 995 That you hardly at first see the strength that is...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; "I'is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, looo With his gnarled, bony branches like ribs of... | |
 | Education - 1902 - 830 pages
...Ye?, Lowell, in hia "Fable for Critics," says of him: "There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare, That you hardly at first see the strength that is there." 5. The child is supposed to have had the word "hen," from ihis he gets the sound of en in fence. By... | |
 | Bowdoin College. Institute of Modern Literature - Literature, Modern - 1926 - 116 pages
...cancer incurables. But little that is both new and true can now be said of "that genius, so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there." for Hawthorne manifested the unusual combination of extreme reticence in companionship with surpassing... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...Who spoke out for the dumb and the down-trodden then! "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, looo Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; 'T is as if a rough oak that for... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 882 pages
...prose pen as by Lowell's most admirable verso : — " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare, That you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame eo robust, with a nature so sweet So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet. Is worth a descent from... | |
 | Jack Salzman - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 302 pages
...for one pole, for t'other the Exchange"), Hawthorne ("There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare / That you hardly at first see the strength that is there"), and Poe ("There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, / Three fifths of him genius and two... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...observations. Thus, Hawthorne combines power and tenderness in rare balance - a genius "so shrinking and rare / That you hardly at first see the strength that is there." Cooper has drawn one original character, Natty Bumppo, and has done nothing but copy himself ever since.... | |
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