 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
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...writes Lowell in his brilliant Fable for the Critics — " There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare That 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... | |
 | Fashion - 1851 - 318 pages
...The Scarlet Letter ;" " The House of the Seven Gables," fyc. fyc!) There is Hawtliorne, with genins so striking and rare That you hardly at first see...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 - 524 pages
...author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : There is Hawthorne, with genins 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 gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom,... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : TJTere 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 ; "Pis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches, like ribs of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pages
...author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : 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 ; "1'is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, \Vith his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...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 the strength...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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 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; "Pis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1861 - 580 pages
...flower to find on American soil. As LOWELL sings of him : ' THEEE is HAWTHOENE, 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... | |
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