 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
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - 2000 - 332 lehte
...recognized the serpent beneath the lovely woman (but signally failed to recognize her real good will). Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade. 19 On the one hand Apollonius stands for that objectifying... | |
 | John Brockman - 2000 - 192 lehte
...to toast "Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics," and in 1820 inspired his well-known lines: Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow. . . . Humanity's eyes have now been widened to see that the rainbow of visible light is an infinitesimal... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 282 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, Anthony L. Johnson, Giuseppe Galigani - 2000 - 313 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 - 393 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 - 174 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 - 312 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 - 292 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... | |
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