 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...  The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats - Page 142by John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1899 - 473 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1885 - 850 pages
...touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her textures ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things....the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. These lines appear to me to contain a world of suggestion. They speak with equal force, artistically,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 268 pages
...philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she is given Jn the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. These lines appear to me to contain a world of suggestion. They speak with equal force, artistically,... | |
 | John Keats - 1885 - 324 pages
...be justified. In "Lamia" he asks — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know...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... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...cluster round mountain and forest and river. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender person'd Lamia melt into a shade. Unfortunately not only the angel's wings are clipped but—it... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1886 - 240 pages
...the eye of imagination) the trace of a god.' 17. Cf. for the sentiment Keats, Lamia, Part II. — ' There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. ' 20. Reltos, ie "HX(os, the Greek sun-god. 21. (Dreas and Dryas are Greek feminine forms, signifying... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 394 pages
...truth of things, in his " Lamia : " — " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. " It is with the imagination, he says in a letter, that we grasp truth ; in other words, the ideal... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - 1887 - 256 pages
...held with a certain consistency:— " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know...mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The teuder-person'd Lamia melt into a shade." Campbell has set forth the same doctrine more fully in The... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - 1887 - 254 pages
...— could revert to the same idea — "Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow." In a letter to his brother, December 1817, Keats observes : — " The excellence of every art is its... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1887 - 246 pages
...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...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomfed mine, Unweave a rainbow." In a letter to his brother, December 1817, Keats observes :— "... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1884 - 486 pages
...beautiful passage that the discoveries of science are lessening the mystery of nature. There was on awful rainbow once in heaven. We know her woof, her...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Science does not, of course, really diminish mystery; it merely pushes it back. He who possesses a... | |
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