 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 - Seite 60von James Russell Lowell - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 600 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1861 - 580 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 330 Seiten
...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 the strength that la there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet,... | |
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