 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 312 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 worth... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis - 1896 - 232 pages
...XLVIIL-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Born at Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804. Died at Plymouth, NH, May 19, 1864. 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 - 1891 - 560 pages
...; Hut 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 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 natnre so sweet, So earnest, so graceful, so lithe, and so fleet, Is worth... | |
 | 1891 - 930 pages
...never is ignified ; " and this other one on Hawthorne — " There is Hawthorne, with genius so striking and rare, That you hardly at first see the strength that is there." And so we might go on multiplying examples. The delicate irony and cultivated humour of "The Fable" could... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1892 - 394 pages
...been 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... | |
 | Camilla Crosland, Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1893 - 326 pages
...clever " Fable for the Critics," has summed up Hawthorne's attributes most admirably when he says — " There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; When Nature was shaping him clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So,... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1893 - 324 pages
...clever " Fable for the Critics," has summed up Hawthorne's attributes most admirably when he says — " There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare...you hardly at first see the strength that is there ; ******* When Nature was shaping him clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1894 - 686 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 a... | |
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 210 pages
...as a flower whose fragrance is shed upon man, but whose roots rest with God. — George B. Smith. " 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 a descent... | |
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There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there... 
