 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, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1899 - 530 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 necesiiarily... | |
 | John Keats - 1900 - 500 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... | |
 | John Keats - 1900 - 268 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... | |
 | 1901 - 552 pages
...literature. — The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; hut there is a space of life between, in which the soul...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 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...the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted : thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1904 - 148 pages
...hardly forbear going on with the immortal words — "and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the...character undecided, the way of life uncertain." The xiv INTRODUCTION faculty of design, the certain control of beauty, were still to come. But come they... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1905 - 308 pages
...transition? ' The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but the space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment,...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 James Dawson - 1906 - 416 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1907 - 282 pages
...such as his. "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 proceed mawkishness and a thousand bitters." It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixteenth... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1907 - 280 pages
...such as his. "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 proceed mawkishness and a thousand bitters." It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixteenth... | |
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