 | William Michael Rossetti, John Parker Anderson - Biografia - 1887 - 242 pages
...without any aggressive or " devil-may-care" addenda. It is too important to be omitted here : — " Knowing within myself the manner in which this poem...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible, are not of such completion as to warrant... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1887 - 252 pages
...beautifully says of his own work all that can justly be said in its dispraise. He warns the reader to expect "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished ;" and adds most unboastfully : " It is just that this youngster should die away : a sad thought for... | |
 | William James Dawson - English poetry - 1890 - 396 pages
...and no criticism could be more just than the criticism of his own preface to it. He says, the reader "must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished. This may be speaking presumptuously, and may deserve a punishment ; but no feeling man will be forward... | |
 | John Keats - 1891 - 246 pages
...STBBTCHBD METRE or AN ANXIQCE SONG. INSCRIBED TO THE MEMOBT or THOMAS CHATTERTON. ENDYMIO N. PREFACE. KNOWING within myself the manner in which this Poem...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pages
...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. " Knowing within myself," he says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be " quite so clear " ; we really do not... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pages
...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. " Knowing within myself," he says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be " quite so clear " ; we really do not... | |
 | American literature - 1895 - 646 pages
...poem, himself written the best criticism which has ever appeared on that youthful work. He said : " Knowing within myself the manner in which this poem...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant... | |
 | 1893 - 882 pages
...Keats, in the preface to his "Endymion," says : "Knowing within myself the manner in which this poem haa been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. ... It is just that this youngster should die away : a sad thought for me, if I had not some hope that... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 702 pages
...beautifully says of his own work all that can justly be said in its dispraise. He warns the reader to expect "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...a feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished ;" and adds most unboastfully : " It is just that this youngster should die away : a sad thought for... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...beautifully says of his own work all that can justly be said in its dispraise. He warns the reader to expect "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished," and adds most unboastfully :—" it is just that this youngster should die away : a sad thought for... | |
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KNOWING within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public. What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every... 
