 | 1891 - 556 pages
...practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy... Voltaire, POWERS OF. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...rule and line; Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. Keats. A MODEST PROFESSION. Philosophy is a modest profession, it is all reality... | |
 | 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?...rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.' John Keats,... | |
 | 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... | |
| |
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... 
