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... mirth ! ... That I might drink and leave the world unseen , ... Fade far away , dissolve , and quite forget ... The weariness , the fever , and the fret ... 1694 6-2 AND OTHER WRITINGS OF JOHN KEATS = EDITED WITH NOTES.
... mirth ! ... That I might drink and leave the world unseen , ... Fade far away , dissolve , and quite forget ... The weariness , the fever , and the fret ... 1694 6-2 AND OTHER WRITINGS OF JOHN KEATS = EDITED WITH NOTES.
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... leave Syracuse in his life - So kept himself out of all Knight Errantry — This I know to be a fact ; for it is written in the 45th book of Winkine's treatise on garden - rollers , that he trod on a fishwoman's toe in Liverpool , and ...
... leave Syracuse in his life - So kept himself out of all Knight Errantry — This I know to be a fact ; for it is written in the 45th book of Winkine's treatise on garden - rollers , that he trod on a fishwoman's toe in Liverpool , and ...
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... leave as far behind as the hare did the tortoise . It must be so or you would never have thought that I really meant you would like to pro and con about those honeycombs - no , I had no such idea ; or , if I had , ' twould be only to ...
... leave as far behind as the hare did the tortoise . It must be so or you would never have thought that I really meant you would like to pro and con about those honeycombs - no , I had no such idea ; or , if I had , ' twould be only to ...
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... leave to conjecture , I have concluded to omit the whole passage . " Mr. Jeffrey attempted to copy it ; but I have only been able to supply a portion from his imperfect transcript . Every one inquires after you , and every one desires ...
... leave to conjecture , I have concluded to omit the whole passage . " Mr. Jeffrey attempted to copy it ; but I have only been able to supply a portion from his imperfect transcript . Every one inquires after you , and every one desires ...
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... leave her — but I must and I hope she will not be much a loser by it - Bentley is very well - he has just brought me a cloathe's basket of Books . Brown has gone to town today to take his Nephews who are on a visit here to see the Lions ...
... leave her — but I must and I hope she will not be much a loser by it - Bentley is very well - he has just brought me a cloathe's basket of Books . Brown has gone to town today to take his Nephews who are on a visit here to see the Lions ...
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Abbey affectionate Brother John affectionate friend appears beautiful Bedhampton Ben Nevis BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON Book Brown called copy Cottage dear Bailey dear Fanny dear Keats dear Reynolds delight Devonshire Dilke dined Endymion eyes FANNY KEATS feel friend John Keats genius George George Keats give Hampstead happy Haslam Haydon's journal Hazlitt head hear heard heart hope Hunt imagination JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS Kean Keats's ladies Leigh Hunt letter lines Little Britain look Lord Houghton miles Milton mind Miss morning mountains never night Paradise Lost passage perhaps Peter Bell pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Port Patrick Postmark remember Rice seen Shakespeare sister sonnet soon sort soul speak spirit talk Taylor Teignmouth tell thing THOMAS KEATS thought tion town Volume walk Walthamstow Wentworth Place wish word Wordsworth write written wrote yesterday
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Page 292 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 22 - Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To highth of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage, With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 20 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Page 28 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 20 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Page 23 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 23 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 23 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 22 - The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind...
Page 91 - The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream: he awoke and found it Truth. I am more zealous in this affair, because I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for Truth by consecutive reasoning, and yet it must be so.