 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 Eclectic Review - Page 200redigeeritud poolt - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 lehte
...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...the haunted air, and gnomed mine. Unweave a rainbow. John Keats, 'Lamia' (1820) Language has some similarities to the rainbow.1 Both can be partially separated... | |
 | Allan C. Christensen - 2000 - 338 lehte
...magician, able to work a countermagic to the beneficent magic exercised by Lamia. Apollonius's reason can "Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, / Empty the...haunted air, and gnomed mine — / Unweave a rainbow" (II 235-37). In the scene describing Lamia's preparations for the banquet, Keats comes closer to seeing... | |
 | Jackson R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, Ruth Prigozy - 2012 - 296 lehte
...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 rule and line, Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade. (2.229-38) Now... | |
 | Jackson R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, Ruth Prigozy - 2012 - 296 lehte
...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 rule and line, Unweave a rainbow, as it crewhile made The teruler-personed Lamia melt into a shade. (2.229-38) Now... | |
 | Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser - 2001 - 654 lehte
...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...mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.' John Keats, Lamia (1820) on the relationship between scientific... | |
 | James Hamilton - 2001 - 226 lehte
...mere reconstruction of the vanished past. He would have had every sympathy with Keats' lament that: Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomcd mine Unweave a rainbow. 53 His business as he saw it was to make sure that the rainbows remained,... | |
 | Debbie Lee - 2017 - 314 lehte
...all African explorers were alike, Keats aligns Apollonius with the methods of the explorer who would "conquer all mysteries by rule and line, / Empty the...mine—/ Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made / The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade" (2:235-38l. Yet because Keats attempts to capture the charms... | |
 | Richard Hamblyn - 2002 - 306 lehte
...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 rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender/personed Lamia melt into a shade.20... | |
 | F. Paul Wilson - 2002 - 424 lehte
...can do?" "I'll straighten it out," Lyle said, but he didn't look convincing. "Sure?" "If I may quote: 'Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine.' " "The gnomed mine . . . gnomed with a G?" Lyle nodded. "With a G." "I like that."... | |
 | Patricia Fara - 2002 - 390 lehte
...once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she ù given In the dull catalogue of common things. Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings . . . Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd... | |
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