John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-fameC. Scribner's Sons, 1917 - 598 páginas |
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... true vocation as a guide to the pleasures of literature . His manner in criticism has at its best an easy penetration , and flowing unobtrusive felicity , most remote from those faults to which De Quincey and even the illustrious ...
... true vocation as a guide to the pleasures of literature . His manner in criticism has at its best an easy penetration , and flowing unobtrusive felicity , most remote from those faults to which De Quincey and even the illustrious ...
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... true poetical style was to avoid everything strained , stilted , and conventional , and to lighten the stress of his theme with familiar graces and pleasantries in the manner of his beloved Ariosto . But he did not realise that while ...
... true poetical style was to avoid everything strained , stilted , and conventional , and to lighten the stress of his theme with familiar graces and pleasantries in the manner of his beloved Ariosto . But he did not realise that while ...
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... true , But with a right , for ' tis a poet's too . How pleasant the leaves feel ! and how they spread With their broad angles , like a nodding shed Over both eyes ! and how complete and new , As on my hand I lean , to feel them strew My ...
... true , But with a right , for ' tis a poet's too . How pleasant the leaves feel ! and how they spread With their broad angles , like a nodding shed Over both eyes ! and how complete and new , As on my hand I lean , to feel them strew My ...
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... true Greek touch by familiarity with smoothed and pumiced Roman copies , had declared the Parthenon sculptures to be works of the age of Hadrian . Haydon's victory over these antagonists is his chief title , and a title both sound and ...
... true Greek touch by familiarity with smoothed and pumiced Roman copies , had declared the Parthenon sculptures to be works of the age of Hadrian . Haydon's victory over these antagonists is his chief title , and a title both sound and ...
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... true great art but of imitative pictorial posturing and empty pictorial bombast . As a draughtsman especially , Haydon's touch is sur- prisingly loose , empty , and inexpressive . Even in drawing from the Elgin marbles , as he did with ...
... true great art but of imitative pictorial posturing and empty pictorial bombast . As a draughtsman especially , Haydon's touch is sur- prisingly loose , empty , and inexpressive . Even in drawing from the Elgin marbles , as he did with ...
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Página 416 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss. Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss. For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair ! Ah, happy, happy boughs ! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu...
Página 146 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Página 88 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 239 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Página 351 - I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried, "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!
Página 422 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Página 253 - The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth.
Página 388 - Ceres' daughter, Ere the God of Torment taught her How to frown and how to chide; With a waist and with a side White as Hebe's, when her zone...
Página 416 - What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Página 404 - But his sagacious eye an inmate owns: By one and one the bolts full easy slide: The chains lie silent on the footworn stones; The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groans. And they are gone...