 This may be speaking too presumptuously, and may deserve a punishment: but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it: he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.  Mind - Page 3571900Full view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1818 - 232 pages
...but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it : he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms of course, but from the... | |
 | 1834 - 442 pages
...know that you have deserved your fortune, but, — to use the remarkable expression of Keats, — " There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object :" — scarcely inferior is the agony which rages in a lofty mind, languishing for scope for action,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 512 pages
...but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it: he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms of course, but from the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 552 pages
...but no feeling man will '« forward to inflict it: he will leave me alone, wilh 'fee conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms of course, but from the... | |
 | John Keats - 1841 - 254 pages
...but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it : he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms of course, but from the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 484 pages
...man," he says, " will be forward to inflict punishment on me ; he will leave me alone, knowing that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object." Still the tone of Shelley's prefaces is trumpet-like, their march stately and majestic, their criticism... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pages
...man," he says, " will be forward to inflict punishment on me ; he will leave me alone, knowing that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object." Still the tone of Shelley's prefaces is trumpetlike, their march stately and majestic, their criticism... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it : he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms of course, but from the... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...but no feeling man will be forward to inflict it ; he will leave me alone, with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. This is not written with the least atom of purpose to forestall criticisms, of course, but from the... | |
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