...dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule '95 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule '95 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till,...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule '95 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till,...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule '95 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till,...

...their original application was very different — might almost have been directly addressed to him : Ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Except that Thomson's minstrels were not dolts, this was pretty much the position. The intellectually...

...Classicists with their brilliant conceits, their servility to foreign models, and their learned emptiness. "Ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely...and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit They tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy." Charles was heir...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious. Beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of; were closely...laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile." Here the rhythmical units are very beautiful and varied, as is always the case with Keats ; but they...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious. Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of ; were closely...laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile." Here the rhythmical units are very beautiful and varied, as is always the case with Keats ; but they...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious: beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed 20 21 To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts...

...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphem'd the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not...