 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 страница
...them trembling all round at every capture like a spider's web." Says Lowell, in his Fable JOT Critics: "There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare...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,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 страница
...affection in the domestic circle, of rare kindliness in personal intercourse; so shrinking, so exquisite. 'There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. . . . When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted,... | |
 | Delia Wood Lyman - 1883 - 754 страница
...psychological studies of New England life and his exquisite beauty of style. Lowell wrote of Hawthorne : "A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest,...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. " TUESDAY May 20 John Eliot. — 1604-1690. — The " Indian Apostle, Eliot," was born in England in... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 страница
...Who himself was so free, he dared sing for the slave When to look but a protest in silence was brave. There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there. ****** There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 страница
...; But he plumped into Helicon up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and...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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 страница
...; But he plumped into Helicon up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 страница
...affection in the domestic circle, of rare kindliness in personal intercourse; so shrinking, so exquisite. •There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first sec the strength that is there; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet. So earnest, so graceful,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 страница
...Scarlet Letter," " The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun" : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...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,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 страница
...Admirably did Russell Lowell depict him when he wrote the following lines in his Fable for Criiics : " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...Olympus to meet : 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages hail stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles of struggle... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 страница
...Scarlet Letter," " The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun " : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...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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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... 
