 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 And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 247by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Egerton Smith - 1923 - 352 pages
...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...compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till like the certain wands of Jacob's wit Their verses tallied.... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1903 - 238 pages
...their following of fixed rules. He says to them : — "... beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were...certain wands of Jacob's wit Their verses tallied." Keats was no follower of "musty laws." His poetry is the triumph of the romantic movement. THE PROSE.... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pages
...summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake I Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, iulay, and clip, and fit. Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's Their verses tallied. Easy was the... | |
 | John Keats - 1924 - 212 pages
...was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To musty laws lined out with wretched rule 100 And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts...fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, ir verses tallied.. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 105 Of Poesy. Ill-fated,... | |
 | John Keats - 1924 - 268 pages
...is truly remarkable. "It is no longer", he says, "a new observation, that poetry has of late years To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule 1% And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till,... | |
 | Francis Edwards Aloysius Litz - 1924 - 96 pages
...make The morning precious : Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things you knew not of — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass evil." (187 ff.) For such was his temperament and spiritual attitude that it would have been strange... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 pages
...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...Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : 1. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence, v. VII, p. 29. 2. Ibid., v. VII, p. 30. A thousand handicraftsmen... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1925 - 448 pages
...Keats's immediate offence was the passage in Sleep and Poetry where Pope and his followers are addressed: But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lived out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay,... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 pages
...summer night 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...and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob 's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy!... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 194 pages
...summer night 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...and clip, and fit. Till, like the certain wands of Jacob 's wit. Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy!... | |
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