The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted... The Living Age - Pagina 2991916Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pagine
...who are competent to look, and who do look with a jealous eye to the honour of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted ; thence proceeds mawkislmess and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
| John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pagine
...who are competent to look, and who do look with a jealous eye to the honour of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a maii is healthy, but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character... | |
| 1892 - 568 pagine
...that comes between the healthy imagination of the boy and the healthy imagination of the mature man, ' in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition VOL. XXXIII. — NO. LXV. N thick-sighted.' As compared with the volume of 1817, it shows that Keats... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1878 - 272 pagine
...promise of any man, probably, for the years he died at — wrote in 1818 to the 'Endymion,' it is said : 'The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is heallhy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided,... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pagine
...the untruth, so far as Hawthorne is eoneerned, of a passage in the Preface to Endymion. Keats says: " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the charaeter undeeided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thiek-sighted." Hawthorne's imagination... | |
| Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 pagine
...men who are competent to look and who do look with a jealous eye to the honour of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted. Thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
| 1914 - 708 pagine
...the more delicately the finer thoughts are interpreted. In the preface to "Endymion" we read that, "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man's healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character... | |
| 1914 - 684 pagine
...the more delicately the finer thoughts are interpreted. In the preface to "Endymion" we read that, "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man's healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character... | |
| 1881 - 520 pagine
...author than to the school. Keats has told us that " the imagination of a boy is healthy, and tb :-i!iire imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in whicl tb* soul is in a ferment, the character un ecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition hick... | |
| John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pagine
...inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. . . . The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted ; thence proceeds mawkishness and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily... | |
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