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... KEATS . 116 . . 118 JOHN KEATS 118 TITLE OF FIRST EDITION OF KEATS'S " POEMS " From original portrait by Severn • 119 FACSIMILE OF Page of LETTER FROM B. R. HAYDON TO MRS . BROWNING . DEATH - BED PORTRAIT OF KEATS , BY JOSEPH SEVERN 120 ...
... KEATS . 116 . . 118 JOHN KEATS 118 TITLE OF FIRST EDITION OF KEATS'S " POEMS " From original portrait by Severn • 119 FACSIMILE OF Page of LETTER FROM B. R. HAYDON TO MRS . BROWNING . DEATH - BED PORTRAIT OF KEATS , BY JOSEPH SEVERN 120 ...
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... Keats's " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " such enduring fame ; but at the time it was composed and read , it produced a prodigious effect upon the company , and some day my heirs , executors , admin- istrators , and assigns may ...
... Keats's " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " such enduring fame ; but at the time it was composed and read , it produced a prodigious effect upon the company , and some day my heirs , executors , admin- istrators , and assigns may ...
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... Keats . OXFORD B. H. BLACKWELL , BROAD STREET LONDON SIMPEIN , MARSHALL & CO . LIMITED MCMXII an entry in the Diary under date of February 3 , 1665 , that Pepys had taken a vow to abstain from kissing pretty women and , in the event of ...
... Keats . OXFORD B. H. BLACKWELL , BROAD STREET LONDON SIMPEIN , MARSHALL & CO . LIMITED MCMXII an entry in the Diary under date of February 3 , 1665 , that Pepys had taken a vow to abstain from kissing pretty women and , in the event of ...
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... Keats's letters , " There is no greater Sin after the seven deadly than to flatter oneself into an idea of being a great Poet . " And with this sentiment I am in full accord . The " Memoires Re- lating to the State of the Royal Navy of ...
... Keats's letters , " There is no greater Sin after the seven deadly than to flatter oneself into an idea of being a great Poet . " And with this sentiment I am in full accord . The " Memoires Re- lating to the State of the Royal Navy of ...
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... Keats : here I collide with Miss Amy Lowell , with the usual result . But something may yet be done . Let me recon- noitre a bit . There is Leigh Hunt . It is , of course , a sad falling off ; but is there a book - lover who has not in ...
... Keats : here I collide with Miss Amy Lowell , with the usual result . But something may yet be done . Let me recon- noitre a bit . There is Leigh Hunt . It is , of course , a sad falling off ; but is there a book - lover who has not in ...
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Page 204 - I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by His name. Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Page 204 - Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire...
Page 204 - Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Page 203 - So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer : ' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read...
Page 130 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start...
Page 204 - I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine,— And into my garden stole When the night had...
Page 87 - The Three Princes of Serendip. As their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of...
Page 204 - Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors...
Page 112 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Page 247 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...