 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...  Byron - Page 173by John Nichol - 1902 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...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...made The tender person'd Lamia melt into a shade. Unfortunately not only the angel's wings are clipped but—it is infinitely more important—the dramatist's... | |
 | 1886 - 454 pages
...antagonism between philosophical investigation and romance in any form. " Philosophy," says Keats, " will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air * * * * unweave a rainbow." Among Keats' occasional flashes of sense there is nothing truer. Many a... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - 1887 - 252 pages
...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...mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The teuder-person'd Lamia melt into a shade." Campbell has set forth the same doctrine more fully in The... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - 1887 - 290 pages
...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...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow." In a letter to his brother, December 1817, Keats observes:— " The excellence of every art is its... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1887 - 246 pages
...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...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomfed mine, Unweave a rainbow." In a letter to his brother, December 1817, Keats observes :— "... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy... Voltaire, POWERS OF. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. Keats. A MODEST PROFESSION. Philosophy is a modest profession, it is all reality and plain dealing;... | |
 | John Keats - 1891 - 236 pages
...philosophy ? 230 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...Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, 235 Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1891 - 328 pages
...do not profess to be less practical than my age, but yet I prefer poets to philosophers, for — " ' Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine." " "That is true," answered Francesca. "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven. But we know its woof... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...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, 8* M !2 Yet over such difficulties the true lover of poetry will find himself swiftly borne, until... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...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...gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade." Emphatic as these lines are in themselves, they gain strange... | |
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