Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats |
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... if his utterances be deep and true , can hardly hide himself even beneath the epic or dramatic veil , and often makes of the rough public ear a confessional into which to pour the richest treasures and holiest secrets of his soul .
... if his utterances be deep and true , can hardly hide himself even beneath the epic or dramatic veil , and often makes of the rough public ear a confessional into which to pour the richest treasures and holiest secrets of his soul .
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... for example , as- " the sea - shouldering whale " ) would light up his countenance with ecstacy , and some fine touch of description would seem to strike on the secret chords of his soul and generate countless harmonies .
... for example , as- " the sea - shouldering whale " ) would light up his countenance with ecstacy , and some fine touch of description would seem to strike on the secret chords of his soul and generate countless harmonies .
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The strange tragedy of the fate of Chatterton , " the marvelous Boy , the sleepless soul that perished in its pride , " so disgraceful to the age in which it occurred , and so awful a warning to all others of the cruel evils which the ...
The strange tragedy of the fate of Chatterton , " the marvelous Boy , the sleepless soul that perished in its pride , " so disgraceful to the age in which it occurred , and so awful a warning to all others of the cruel evils which the ...
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But at this time the destiny of Haydon seemed to be spread out very differently before him ; if ever stern presentiments came across his soul , Art and Youth had then colors bright enough to chase them all away .
But at this time the destiny of Haydon seemed to be spread out very differently before him ; if ever stern presentiments came across his soul , Art and Youth had then colors bright enough to chase them all away .
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Our changed and mingled souls are grown To such acquaintance now , That , if each would resume her own , Alas ! we know not how , We have each other so engrost That each is in the union lost . And thus we can no absence know , Nor shall ...
Our changed and mingled souls are grown To such acquaintance now , That , if each would resume her own , Alas ! we know not how , We have each other so engrost That each is in the union lost . And thus we can no absence know , Nor shall ...
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Página 64 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Página 171 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the...
Página 74 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: // Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Página 68 - I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity — it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance — 2nd.
Página 41 - I have never yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning — and yet it must be. Can it be that even the greatest philosopher ever arrived at his goal without putting aside numerous objections. However it may be, O for a Life of sensations rather than of thoughts ! It is 'a vision in the form of youth
Página 141 - 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 59 - 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 85 - Or may I woo thee In earlier Sicilian ? or thy smiles Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles, By bards who died content on pleasant sward, Leaving great verse unto a little clan ? O, give me their old vigour, and unheard Save of the quiet Primrose, and the span Of heaven and few ears, Rounded by thee, my song should die away Content as theirs, Rich in the simple worship of a day.
Página 193 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Página 82 - I have been hovering for some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy, — were I calculated for the former, I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter.