This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless ; I long after a stanza or two of Thomson's " Castle of Indolence ; " my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre all over... Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats - Page 266by Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...my brother's going to America; and am almost stony-hearted about his wedding.'' " I am this morning in a sort of temper, indolent, and supremely careless...weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful sensation,—about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl, and the breath... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...my brother's going to America ; and am almost stony-hearted about his wedding." " I am this morning ohn Holmes Agnew mt to u delightful sensation, — about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of... | |
| American essays - 1884 - 882 pages
...scrupulous a truth-teller, here is a characteristic paragraph written to his brother George: — " This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent, and...over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies, I should call it languor... | |
| John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poets, English - 1867 - 388 pages
...at all, they want imagination ; and that is why they are so fond of Hogg, who has so little of it. This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and...long after a stanza or two of Thomson's "Castle of Indo- . I lence;" my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened... | |
| John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...at all, they want imagination ; and that is why they are so fond of Hogg, who has so little of it. This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and...faintness. If I had teeth of pearl, and the breath of lillies, I should call it languor; but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy,... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 608 pages
...from Keats's letter begun on the 14th of February 1819 as anticipating the Ode on Indolence :— " This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and...faintness. If I had teeth of pearl, and the breath of lillies, I should call it languor ; but, as I am, I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy,... | |
| William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 284 pages
...difficult to read without disgust the following confession of an apparently contented materialist : — This morning I am in a sort of temper indolent and...delightful sensation about three degrees on this side faintness. If I had teeth of pearl, and the breath of lilies, I should call it languor; but as I am,... | |
| American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...difficult to read without disgust the following confession of an apparently contented materialist : — This morning I am in a sort of temper indolent and supremely careless ; 1 long after a stanza or two of Thomson's " Castle of Indolenco ; " my passions are all asleep, from... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified strawberry.' Or again : ' I am in a sort of temper, indolent, and supremely...of Thomson's " Castle of Indolence ; " my passions passions arc all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre... | |
| George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 318 pages
...scrupulous a truth-teller, here is a characteristic paragraph written to his brother George: — " This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent, and...over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies, I should call it languor;... | |
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