English Men of Letters, Volume 13John Morley Harper & Brothers, 1894 - Authors, English |
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... close of a long life , during which he had de- served well of literature in more ways than one , wrote retrospectively of Keats : " He was a favourite with all . Not the less beloved was he for hav- ing a highly pugnacious spirit ...
... close of a long life , during which he had de- served well of literature in more ways than one , wrote retrospectively of Keats : " He was a favourite with all . Not the less beloved was he for hav- ing a highly pugnacious spirit ...
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... close of this same year 1810 , when he was just fif- teen , and made to put on harness for the practical work of life . With no opposition , so far as we learn , on his own part , he was bound apprentice for a term of five years to a ...
... close of this same year 1810 , when he was just fif- teen , and made to put on harness for the practical work of life . With no opposition , so far as we learn , on his own part , he was bound apprentice for a term of five years to a ...
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... close , as far as they go . Poetry had indeed already become Keats's chief interest , but it is clear , at the same time , that he attended the hospitals and did his work regularly , acquiring a fairly solid knowledge , both theoretical ...
... close , as far as they go . Poetry had indeed already become Keats's chief interest , but it is clear , at the same time , that he attended the hospitals and did his work regularly , acquiring a fairly solid knowledge , both theoretical ...
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... close of the couplet , and making use constantly of the enjambement , or way of letting the sense flow over from one line to another , without pause or em- phasis on the rhyme - word . Others show an opposite ten- dency , especially in ...
... close of the couplet , and making use constantly of the enjambement , or way of letting the sense flow over from one line to another , without pause or em- phasis on the rhyme - word . Others show an opposite ten- dency , especially in ...
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... , and they quickly became close friends and comrades . After an evening of high talk at the beginning of their acquaintance , on the 19th of November , 1816 , the young poet wrote to Haydon as follows , joining his 42 [ CHAP . KEATS .
... , and they quickly became close friends and comrades . After an evening of high talk at the beginning of their acquaintance , on the 19th of November , 1816 , the young poet wrote to Haydon as follows , joining his 42 [ CHAP . KEATS .
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Page 25 - 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 stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 25 - 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 41 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
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 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 127 - This is a mere matter of the moment : 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
Page 199 - The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest ; Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever, — or else swoon to death.
Page 128 - I never was in love — yet the voice and shape of a Woman * has haunted me these two days — at such a time, when the relief, the feverous relief of Poetry seems a much less crime. This morning Poetry has conquered — I have relapsed into those abstractions .which are my only life — I feel escaped from a new strange and threatening sorrow — and I am thankful for it. There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of Immortality.
Page 245 - Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.