| Amelia E. Barr - 1891 - 328 pages
...do not profess to be less practical than my age, but yet I prefer poets to philosophers, for — " ' Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine." " "That is true," answered Francesca. "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven. But we know its woof... | |
| John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...forgetfulness ; and, for the sage, Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage War on his temples. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? 230 There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 372 pages
...a farthing half a century ago, is doubtless our most imaginative rendering of the legend which 1 " There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know...is given In the dull catalogue of common things." Keats : Lamia. placed the blind giant in the skies. The most superb of constellations represents even... | |
| John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...which, from the reports of his conversation, we know him to have held with a certain consistency : " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, 8* M !2 Yet over such difficulties the true lover of poetry will find himself swiftly borne, until... | |
| 1894 - 706 pages
...which from the reports of his conversation we know him to have held with a certain consistency:— " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was au awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt ; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. — Bacon. Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy 1 — Keatt. Philosophy does not look into pedigrees. She did not find Plato noble, but she made him... | |
| John Keats - 1896 - 348 pages
...spiteful thistle wage War on his temples. Dp not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? 230 There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know...Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, 235 Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed... | |
| Jackson R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, Ruth Prigozy - 2012 - 296 pages
...overcome its earlier ambivalence about Lamia by bursting forth with the following rhetorical question: "Do not all charms fly /At the mere touch of cold philosophy?" (2.229-30). The nostalgia that informs the subsequent lines suggests that the narrator has lost something... | |
| Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser - 2001 - 654 pages
...one of nature's beautiful visions — the rainbow. In fact, Keats had merely cast one vote of many Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.' John Keats, Lamia (1820) on the relationship... | |
| Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pages
...Keats is partly responsible. "Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings," worries the narrator of Lamia: There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. (2-2-3 1~3 3 ) 230 Editions of Keats often footnote the "immortal dinner" that Haydon hosted in late... | |
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