T is 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 Poetical Works of James R. Lowell - Страница 60написао/ла James Russell Lowell - 1871Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| 462 страница
...Letter ;" " The House of Ike Seven Gables," Sfc. fyc.) There is Hawthorne, with genius so striking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; Tis as if a rm ;h oak that for ages had stood, With hisgnarleu bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom,... | |
| 1871 - 808 страница
...Hawthorne," 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... | |
| 1851 - 318 страница
...Letter ;" " The House of the Seven Gables," fyc. fyc!) There is Hawtliorne, with genins so striking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength...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 - 604 страница
...discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : TJTere is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...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 страница
...discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...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... | |
| 1860 - 602 страница
...The humour of Hawthorne is a singular flower to find on American soil. As Lowell sings of him — " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare,...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... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 580 страница
...singular 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,...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... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 612 страница
...singular flower to find on American soil. As LOWELL sings of him : ' THERE is HAWTHORNE, with genius so shrinking and rare, That you hardly, at first,...there, A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, 80 earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet. Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. 'T is as if a... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 102 страница
...to the 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...Olympus to meet ; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ases had stood, O o * With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 страница
...he plumped into Helicon up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. great, and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest,... | |
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