 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
 | Sidney Colvin - 1927 - 264 pages
...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...that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, aud clip, and tit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1916 - 536 pages
...fancy, at two- or three-and-twenty ; and I accused him of leaning towards that eighteenth century That taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Another fanaticism delayed my friendship with two men, who are now my friends and in certain -matters... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 pages
...hit my fancy at two or three and twenty, and I accused him of leaning towards that eighteenth century Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit Till,...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. That taught a school Another fanaticism delayed my friendship with two men, who are now my friends... | |
 | Daniel P. Watkins - 1989 - 246 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...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. (187-99) Moreover, while Keats acknowledges that such obstacles to great poetry have been opposed by... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - 1993 - 344 pages
...misunderstand Hellenism or "Apollo's glories," one of whom is Tess: "beauty was awake!/ Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead/ To things ye knew not of — were...laws lined out with wretched rule/ And compass vile" (193-97). As second-rate poets, Alec and Angel are one of the "thousand handicraftsmen" who wear "the... | |
 | John Keats - 1994 - 554 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...clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit,9 Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy.... | |
 | William Keach - 2004 - 216 pages
...Pegasus."19 Keats knew what he was about in attacking Pope's couplets with couplets of his own devising: But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: (193-99) Here Keats flouts the "wretched rules" of Augustan verse formally as well as argumentatively... | |
 | Christoph Loreck - 2005 - 236 pages
...Works and Other Writings 5: 227. Letters 1:278-279. [...] beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were...laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile [...].4* Thus, Keats's fight for cultural legitimation is also a political fight. In Hyperion, Keats... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 pages
...Schools" (i 16). A passage from Keats's "Sleep and Poetry" serves as a proof-text for his argument: But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...School Of dolts to SMOOTH, inlay, and clip, and//, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. —Easy was the task. A thousand... | |
 | 1916 - 574 pages
...make The morning precious ; beauty was awake I Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things you knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined...fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of poesy. The back-swing of the pendulum from this extreme... | |
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