 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 330 pages
...produce. I have heard a poet VOL. ni. 46 express similar distaste for his own most exquisite poems, and I am afraid that this final despair, and sense...highest merit is suggestiveness." " You, Hilda, are yom-self the only critic in whom I have much faith," said Kenyon. " Had you condemned Cleopatra, nothing... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...final and most ethereal touch. " There is," in her own words, " a class of spectators whose sympathies will help them to see the perfect through a mist of...them than the poet or artist has actually expressed." With his wonted symbolism of ethical import Mr. Hawthorne has made Hilda lose some measure of this... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop - 1883 - 538 pages
...such shameful treatment for a discrowned queen, and my own offspring too, — I should like to hit poor Cleopatra a bitter blow on her Egyptian nose...expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness." ^__ " You, Hilda, are yourself the only critic in whom I have much faith," said Kenyon. "Had you condemned... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 550 pages
...such shameful treatment for a discrowned queen, and my own offspring too, — I should like to hit poor Cleopatra a bitter blow on her Egyptian nose...pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in " You invest me with such an awful responsibility," she replied, "that I shall not dare to say a single... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1880 - 280 pages
...you have been able to imagine things too high for mortal faculties to execute. The idea leaves you au imperfect image of itself, which you at first mistake...suggestiveness." " You, Hilda, are yourself the only critic in wliom I have much faith," said Kenyon. " Had you condemned Cleopatra, nothing should have saved her."... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 pages
...mossy grace, or else be nothing but a stone. Live not without a God ! however low7 or high, Nobody ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues,...expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Hawthorne. Be thou a hero ; let thy might Tramp on eternal snows its way, And through the ebon walls... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1897 - 534 pages
...beautiful idea. It only proves that you have been able to imagine things too high for mortal facul- / ties to execute. The idea leaves you an imperfect image...artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggesti veness." " You, Hilda, are yourself the only critic in whom I have much faith," said Kenyon.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1900 - 402 pages
...seldom from the hand that sculptured them," said Hilda, laughing. " But you must not let yourself be 236 too much disheartened by the decay of your faith in...condemned Cleopatra, nothing should have saved her." 237 " You invest me with such an awful responsibility," she replied, " that I shall not dare to say... | |
 | Margaret Thomas - 1900 - 466 pages
...chipping laboriously at the solid rock. CHAPTER XIX THE CAVE OF ADULLAM, FRANK MOUNTAIN, AND ART AS " Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at...expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness." — HAWTHORNE. A PARTY, consisting of two English gentlemen, a Turkish effendi, and our two selves... | |
 | Margaret Thomas - 1900 - 452 pages
...chipping laboriously at the solid rock. CHAPTER XIX THE CAVE OF ADULLAM, FRANK MOUNTAIN, AND ARTAS " Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at...expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness." — HAWTHORNE. A PARTY, consisting of two English gentlemen, a Turkish effendi, and our two selves... | |
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. 
