 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...the mind : They tore away some weeds, 'tis true, But all the flow'rs were ravish'd too ! Thos. Moore. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...rule and line : Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow. JCeata. You brag, methinks. somewhat too much of late, Of your lamp-lit philosophy.... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 310 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...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. By her glad... | |
 | 1893 - 428 pages
...languages which they taught." Representing the poets, John Keats, in "Lamia," exclaim* wully : — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...is given In the dull catalogue of common things." In Pot's "Sonnet to Science" we meet the same regretful aversion. A still more recent voice is raised... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 382 pages
...ambrosial feathers and stalked solemnly after us. XII. There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; AVe know her woof, her texture : she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. IT was the afternoon before I got back to Venice. Sedley met me as I entered the hotel. He seemed unusually... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 608 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 : (218-19) Cancelled reading— High as the handles... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 284 pages
...indifferent. Physical science he regarded as the enemy of Poetry. ' Do not all charms,' he asks — Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. These lines appear to me to contain a world of suggestion. They speak with equal... | |
 | John Keats - 1885 - 324 pages
...attitude towards knowledge has often been copied, but can never be justified. In "Lamia" he asks — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. bow is robbed of its mystery ; " and the life he sighs for as late as two years before his death is... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 268 pages
...indifferent. Physical science he regarded as the enemy of Poetry. ' Do not all charms,' he asks — Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she is given Jn the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries... | |
 | 1885 - 850 pages
...insensible. Physical science he regarded as the enemy of poetry. " Do not all charms," he asks, — Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her textures ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...work. Science dispels the thousand and one myths that cluster round mountain and forest and river. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...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. Unfortunately not... | |
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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... 
