 O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou...  The Christian Teacher - Page 2481839Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape I Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the...pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st : " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! witl brede Of marble men and maidens 0ver wrought, sell! 4î7 With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent...pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st : " Beauty is truth,... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1885 - 324 pages
...of thought As doth eternity : Cold Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou gayest, " Beauty is truth, truth beauty "—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...stanza of the " Ode on a Grecian Urn " — U Attic shape ! Fair attitude 1 with brede Of niarbie men and maidens overwrought With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou, silent form 1 dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity : cold Pastoral ! When old age shall this generation... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - American literature - 1886 - 480 pages
...AND HIS FRIENDS. it, the spectator may fitly recall those noble lines of Keats upon a Grecian urn : " When old age shall this genera'tion waste Thou shalt...remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to men : to whom thou sayest, ' Beauty is truth, truth beauty ; that is all Ye know on earth, and all... | |
 | Paul Thagard - Psychology - 2002 - 332 pages
...fact. In the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats even goes so far as to identify beauty and truth: When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt...man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Without going that far, we can still... | |
 | Susan Sontag - Literary Collections - 2002 - 292 pages
...sole occasion for coming to the end of mental activity, which means interminable, unanswered questions ("Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought/ As doth eternity"), in order to arrive at a final equation of ideas ("Beauty is truth, truth beauty") which is both absolutely... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 412 pages
...arose. We turn now to the closing stanza: O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the...say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. In the third stanza we were at a moment of heat, emphatically... | |
 | Religion - 2003 - 166 pages
...of Keats on a Grecian urn we find Greece: O Attic shape! fair attitude! with breed Of marble men and maidens overwrought. With forest branches and the...Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shall remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st 'Beauty is truth,... | |
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