Life of John KeatsW. Scott, 1887 - 217 páginas |
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... story from his brother Thomas -records it thus : " He was , when an infant , a most violent and ungovernable child . At five years of age or thereabouts he once got hold of a naked sword , and , shutting the door , swore nobody should ...
... story from his brother Thomas -records it thus : " He was , when an infant , a most violent and ungovernable child . At five years of age or thereabouts he once got hold of a naked sword , and , shutting the door , swore nobody should ...
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... Stories after Nature . " Other friends . will receive mention as we progress . I have for the present said enough to indicate what was the particular niche in the mansion of English literary life in which Keats found himself housed at ...
... Stories after Nature . " Other friends . will receive mention as we progress . I have for the present said enough to indicate what was the particular niche in the mansion of English literary life in which Keats found himself housed at ...
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... story goes - agreed with Keats that each of them should write an epic within a space of six months . Shelley produced " The Revolt of Islam , ” Keats the " Endymion . " Shelley proved to be the more rapid writer of the two ; for his ...
... story goes - agreed with Keats that each of them should write an epic within a space of six months . Shelley produced " The Revolt of Islam , ” Keats the " Endymion . " Shelley proved to be the more rapid writer of the two ; for his ...
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... story itself appears to be , to get through it : but , with the fullest stretch of our perseverance , we are forced to confess that we have not been able to struggle beyond the first of the four books of which this Poetic Romance ...
... story itself appears to be , to get through it : but , with the fullest stretch of our perseverance , we are forced to confess that we have not been able to struggle beyond the first of the four books of which this Poetic Romance ...
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... story we have been able to make out but little . It seems to be mythological , and probably relates to the loves of Diana and Endymion ; but of this , as the scope of the work has altogether escaped us , we cannot speak with any degree ...
... story we have been able to make out but little . It seems to be mythological , and probably relates to the loves of Diana and Endymion ; but of this , as the scope of the work has altogether escaped us , we cannot speak with any degree ...
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Página 151 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Página 151 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 196 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Página 197 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Página 153 - I am a member ; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self- -It is every thing and nothing — It has no character...
Página 87 - Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 95 - I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. Even as a Matter of present interest the attempt to crush me in the Quarterly has only brought me more into notice, and it is a common expression among book men, " I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.
Página 88 - Be still the unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal— a new birth...
Página 196 - Melancholy has her sovran shrine. Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.
Página 94 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.