 | Whitley Strieber - 2001 - 383 Seiten
...immortality Consumes ... Tithonus, ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We knew her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Lamia, JOHN KEATS J PROLOGUE OHN BLAYLOCK CHECKED his watch again. It was exactly three AM—time to... | |
 | John E. Harrison - 2001 - 306 Seiten
...the acts of a bona fide husband'! Let's return to John Keats again and ask his heartfelt rhetoric: 'Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?' Sadly so, synaesthetes all or synaesthetes none, one can pay one's money and take one's choice but,... | |
 | Richard Hamblyn - 2002 - 306 Seiten
...began to develop his defence of the rainbow in what were to become the best/known lines from 'Lamia': Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender/personed Lamia melt into a shade.20... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 2002 - 142 Seiten
...and mystery, and reduces it to something cold, clinical and abstract: 100 GLIMPSING THE FACE OF GOD Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?...common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings. Keats uses the idea of 'unweaving the rainbow' to express his concern. Does not the scientific explanation... | |
 | Patricia Fara - 2002 - 400 Seiten
...a rainbow's mysteriousness by dissecting its components have become a particularly famous example: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Conquer aR mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Philosophy will clip... | |
 | Patricia Fara - 2002 - 390 Seiten
...a rainbow's mysteriousness by dissecting its components have become a particularly famous example: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she ù given In the dull catalogue of common things. Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the... | |
 | F. Paul Wilson - 2002 - 424 Seiten
...can do?" "I'll straighten it out," Lyle said, but he didn't look convincing. "Sure?" "If I may quote: 'Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine.' " "The gnomed mine . . . gnomed with a G?" Lyle nodded. "With a G." "I like that."... | |
 | Debbie Lee - 2017 - 314 Seiten
...all African explorers were alike, Keats aligns Apollonius with the methods of the explorer who would "conquer all mysteries by rule and line, / Empty the...haunted air, and gnomed mine—/ Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made / The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade" (2:235-38l. Yet because Keats attempts... | |
 | David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton, F. James Rutherford - 2002 - 857 Seiten
...Bacon, Locke, and Newton." John Keats was complaining about science when he included in a poem the line: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? These attitudes are part of an old tradition, going back to the ancient Greek opponents of Democritus'... | |
 | Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey - 2003 - 244 Seiten
...poetry of the rainbow by analytically disassembling it with the tools of prisms and optical theory. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow. For discussion, see Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for... | |
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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... 
