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" Tis 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... "
American Literature, 1607-1885: The development of American thought - Page 410
by Charles Francis Richardson - 1886
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 35

462 pages
...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...so fleet, Is 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,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

1871 - 808 pages
...purposes of passion ? "There is Hawthorne," writes Lowell in his brilliant Fable for the Critics — " There is Hawthorne with genius so shrinking and rare...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...
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The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 13

1851 - 318 pages
...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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32

1854 - 604 pages
...own damage and discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : TJTere is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That...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...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 101

1854 - 524 pages
...discouragement. The author of " Twice-told Tales," again, is thus presented : There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet ; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 22

1855 - 784 pages
...plumped into Hclicoij up to the waist, And muddied the stream ere ho took his first taste. HAWTrfOBXE. There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare, That you hardly atfirst see the strength that is there ; . . . He's a John IJunyan FouijuO, a Puritan Tieck. . . ....
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Fable for critics. Bigelow papers. Unhappy lot of Mr. Knott. An oriental ...

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 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 rare...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 wood,...
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The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Volume 2

James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...waist, And muddied the stream ere he took his first taste. great, " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet; 'Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood,...
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The North British Review, Volume 33

1860 - 598 pages
...American soil. As Lowell sings of him— " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare, That yon hardly at first see the strength that is there: A...so fleet, Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet. 'Tis as if a rough oak, that for ages had stood, With his gnarled, bony branches, like ribs of the...
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The North British review

1860 - 600 pages
...singular flower to find on American soil. As Lowell sings of him — " There is Hawthorne, with genins so shrinking and rare, That you hardly at 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...
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