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... effect is the account of Keats given by a school friend seven or eight years older than himself , to whose appreciation and encouragement the world most likely owes it that he first ventured into poetry . This was the son of the master ...
... effect is the account of Keats given by a school friend seven or eight years older than himself , to whose appreciation and encouragement the world most likely owes it that he first ventured into poetry . This was the son of the master ...
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... effect Leigh Hunt : " The eyes mellow and glowing , large , dark , and sensitive . At the recital of a noble action or a beautiful thought they would suffuse with tears , and his mouth trembled . " It is noticeable that his friends ...
... effect Leigh Hunt : " The eyes mellow and glowing , large , dark , and sensitive . At the recital of a noble action or a beautiful thought they would suffuse with tears , and his mouth trembled . " It is noticeable that his friends ...
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... effects of verse , and the practice of Spenser is said to have suggested to him a special theory as to the use and value of the itera- tion of vowel sounds in poetry . What his theory was we are not clearly told , neither do I think it ...
... effects of verse , and the practice of Spenser is said to have suggested to him a special theory as to the use and value of the itera- tion of vowel sounds in poetry . What his theory was we are not clearly told , neither do I think it ...
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... effect of rhythmical movement attempted in the last lines , to correspond with the buoyancy and variety of the motions described , has a certain felicity , and the whole passage is touched already with Keats's exquisite perception and ...
... effect of rhythmical movement attempted in the last lines , to correspond with the buoyancy and variety of the motions described , has a certain felicity , and the whole passage is touched already with Keats's exquisite perception and ...
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... effect , as he will put his name to it . " Both poet and publisher were delighted with this condescension on the part of the sublime Haydon , who failed , however , to carry out his promise . " My neglect , " said Haydon , long ...
... effect , as he will put his name to it . " Both poet and publisher were delighted with this condescension on the part of the sublime Haydon , who failed , however , to carry out his promise . " My neglect , " said Haydon , long ...
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Page 175 - Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun ! Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...
Page 167 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 23 - 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...
Page 217 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 214 - But, for the sake of a few fine imaginative or domestic passages, are we to be bullied into a certain Philosophy engendered in the whims of an Egotist ? Every man has his speculations, but every man does not brood and peacock over them till he makes a false coinage and deceives himself.
Page 171 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 159 - Emprison'd in black, purgatorial rails: Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat'ries, He passeth by, and his weak spirit fails To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
Page 152 - Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off As if the ebbing air had but one wave...
Page 171 - 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.
Page 73 - The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.