Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" I have been hovering for some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy, — were I calculated for the former, I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter. "
Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats - Page 82
by John Keats - 1848 - 393 pages
Full view - About this book

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious and a love for philosophy. Were I calculated for the former, I should be glad ; but as I am not" (his health was then breaking down) " I shall turn all my soul to the latter." Mr. Milnes tells us...
Full view - About this book

Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats, Volume 1

Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy : were I calculated for the former I should be glad. But as I am not,...sincere friend, JOHN KEATS. It is difficult to add anything to the passages in these letters, which show the spirit in which " Endymion " was written...
Full view - About this book

New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 84

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 616 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy : were I calculated for the former I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter. John Keats's philosophy is not, however, always either very lucid or logical ; witness what he says...
Full view - About this book

The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1848 - 572 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy : were I calculated for the former I should be glad. But as I am not, I shall turn all my soul to the latter. John Keats's philosophy is not, however, always either very lucid or logical ; witness what he says...
Full view - About this book

The North British Review, Volume 10

English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious and a love for philosophy. Were I calculated for the former, I should be glad-; but as I am not" (his health was then breaking down) " I shall turn all my soul to the latter." Mr. Milnes tells us...
Full view - About this book

Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 3

Biography - 1852 - 302 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy; were I caleulated for the former, I should be glad, but as I am not I shall turn all my soul to the latter." The usual monotony of Keats's life •was now agreeably varied by a pedestrian tour, through the lakes...
Full view - About this book

Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy; were I calculated for the former, I should be glad, but as I am not I shall turn all my soul to the latter." The usual monotony of Keats's life was now agreeably varied by a pedestrian tour, through the lakes...
Full view - About this book

Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 3

1861 - 788 pages
...some time between an exquisite " sense of the luxurious and a love for " philosophy. Were I calculated for " the former, I should be glad ; but, as " I am not, I shall turn all my soul to " the latter." In his poetry we have similar evidence. Even in his earlier poems, one is struck not only by the steady...
Full view - About this book

Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 3

1861 - 520 pages
...some time between an exquisite " sense of the luxurious and a love for " philosophy. Were I calculated for " the former, I should be glad ; but, as " I am not, I shall turn all my soul to " the latter." In his poetry we have similar evidence. Even in his earlier poems, one is struck not only by the steady...
Full view - About this book

The Life and Letters of John Keats

John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poets, English - 1867 - 388 pages
...some time between an exquisite sense of the luxurious, and a love for philosophy : were I calculated for the former I should be glad. But as I am not,...sincere friend, JOHN KEATS. It is difficult to add anything to the passages in these letters, which show the spirit in which " Endymion " was written...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF