 The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 1611853Full view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1885 - 324 pages
...The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there ia a space of life between, in which the soul is in a...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - 1887 - 248 pages
...literature. " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted. Thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922 - 1084 pages
..." Kndymion": "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the...the character undecided, the way of life uncertain." Early in March, 1818, Shelley ''looked for the last time on English fields and English skies" and departed... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 314 pages
...writes in his preface to Endymion, " is healthy, 7 and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness and all the thousand bitters." The reality which dogs the footsteps of... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pages
...great object. The imagination of a boy is healthy ; and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted ; thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
 | 1890 - 628 pages
...Endymion, — " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided ; " so in our critical life there is a corresponding period, when our judgments have lost the careless... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1890 - 320 pages
...The Imagination of a boy ia healthy, and the mature Imagination of a man is healthy ; but there IB a space of life between, in which the soul is in a feraient, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted ; thence proceeds... | |
 | Thomas Hodgkin - 1891 - 518 pages
...with the Emperor. HE imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." — (KEATS, Preface to " Endymion.") The sentence thus written by the sensitive young poet, a child... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 pages
...great poet of the very age) " of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." * And particularly in a real poet, where the disturbing influences of passion and fancy are most likely... | |
 | John Keats - 1891 - 246 pages
...English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
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