...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...putting aside numerous objections? However, it' may be,)O for a life of Sensations7 rather than of Thoughts !J It is " a Vision in the form of Youth,"...

...yet been able to perceive how anything 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 Goa4 without putting aside numerous objections? However, it may be, O for a life of Sensations^ rather....

...that Keats is thinking when, in his letter to Bailey, he uses the famous and much misapplied words ' O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts '. It is no more than if he had said, ' O for the pure gospel of the Lyrical Ballads ! ' Of that pure gospel...

...even the greatest Philosopher ever arrived at his Goal without putting aside numerous objections 1 However it may be, O for a life of Sensations rather...Vision in the form of Youth," a shadow of reality to come — And this consideration has further convinced me, — for it has come as auxiliary to another...

...yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning — and yet it must be. Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...Vision in the form of Youth' a Shadow of reality to come — and this consideration has further convinced me for it has come as auxiliary to another favourite...

...yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning — and yet it must be — Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...arrived at his goal without putting aside numerous objections?"7 Nevertheless, Keats valued philosophy : he had intended to "ask Hazlitt in about a years...

...been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning— and yet it muM be— Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...without putting aside numerous objections— However it rnay be, O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! Two general premises interweave here....

...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...Vision in the form of Youth' a Shadow of reality to come — and this consideration has further convinced me, — for it has come as auxiliary to another...

...can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning, and yet [so] it must be. . . . However it may be, О for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts !...vision in the form of youth,' a shadow of reality to come." A shadow of reality to come! What a light that sentence throws on Keats' aspiration for sensations...

...yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consequitive reasoning - and yet it must be - Can it be that even the greatest Philosopher...his goal without putting aside numerous objections. (ibid., i. 184-5) This is not a simple assertion that imaginative truth is superior to rational thinking....