 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 Christian Teacher - Page 2471839Full view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1847 - 280 pages
...look with a zealous eye, to the honour of English literature. 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,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1847 - 556 pages
...look with a jealous eye, to the honor of English literature. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a «pace of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 724 pages
...exhaustion. Keats says beautifully in his preface to Endymion, that "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." Just at present we believe the author of Pierre to Ix; in this state of ferment. Typee, his first book,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...Endymion, that "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is health}', but there is a space of life between, in which the...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." Just at present we believe the author of Pierre to be in this state of ferment. Ту pee, his first... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ppnec of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life unrcrinin, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceed "inwkishness, and all the thousand bitter* which... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." He said: "the imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." Surely, there was much -in this to disarm the violence of the criticism which was levelled at the Poem... | |
 | John Keats - 1856 - 326 pages
...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." He said ; " the ; imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there...of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, tin; character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." Surely, there was... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...concerned, of a passage in the Preface to Endymion. Keats says : " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted." Hawthorne's imagination had no middle period of decadence or doubt, but continued, as it began, in... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...kind which Keats has described so admirably, as the space of life between boyhood and manhood, ' When the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided,...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.' But there are phases which last too long for safety ; and unless we are working towards the light,... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...kind which Keats has described so admirably, as the space of life between boyhood and manhood. ' When the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided,...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.' Hut there are phases which last too long for safety ; and unless we are working towards the light,... | |
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