| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...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... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 pages
...an exquisite and simple style. James Russell Lowell has admirably portrayed him in his " Fable for Critics :" " There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...an exquisite and simple style. James Russell Lowell has admirably portrayed him in his " Fable for Critics :" "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 pages
...; 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...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...thereof. Admirably did Russell Lowell depict him when he wrote the following lines in his Fable for Critics : "There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...Scarlet Letter," " The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun" : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...Scarlet Letter," " The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," or "The Marble Faun " : There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...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...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so solid, so fleet, Is worth... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 104 pages
...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 rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; } A frame so robust, with a nature so / sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet, Is... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 452 pages
...; 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...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet, Is worth... | |
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