 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 164 pages
...drapery" and the wearers. Let ua hope, however, that it is now obsolete. Note 5, page 133, stanza Ix. 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article. " Divinse Particulam Aurae." * ' PRIKTED BY CH REYNELL, BROAD STREET, GOLDEN SQUARE. LONDON: PUBLICATIONS... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,* Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article. LXI. The list grows long of live and dead pretenders To that which none will gain — or none will... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...Lord Byron's own reflections in verse and in prose on the same event: — ' Strange that the soul, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.' ' I am very sorry for it, though I think he took the wrong line as a poet, and was spoiled by Cockneyfying,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...Lord Byron's own reflections in verse and in prose on the same event : — • Strange that the soul, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.' ' I am very sorry for it, though I think he took the wrong line as a poet, and was spoiled by Cockneyfying,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...Lord Byron's own reflections in verse and in prose on the same event : — ' Strange that the soul, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.' ' I am very sorry for it, though I think he took the wrong line as a poet, and was spoiled by Cockneyfying,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 388 pages
...late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak, Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate : 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article. L. The list grows long of live and dead pretenders To that which none will gain — or none will know... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...supporters, two or three.' Then came Keats, the alleged victim of a critique in tliis ' Review ' : — ' Tis strange the mind that very fiery particle Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.' It was the 'literary lower empire' when (1830) Tennyson made his first appearance, diffident and sensitive,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1839 - 398 pages
...man) Or Southey, or Barrow !" Again, in reference to the same notion he says, " Oh, that the soul, that very fiery particle Should let itself be snuffed out by an article." He suffered so much in his lingering illness, that he used to watch the countenance of the physician... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! his was an untoward fate: 'Tis strange tlm mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article. Strange, indeed !— and the friends who honor Keats's memory, should not lend themselves to a story... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...dunces. Lord Byron, in alluding to the supposed cause of Keats's death, said — " Strange that the soul, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article." Hunt told him that Keats was not killed in this way. Byron promised to strike it out. But the smartness... | |
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John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward... 
