 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1923 - 500 pages
...another. They prefer mystery, where they can imagine whatever they wish, and they fear that science will 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. They even seem to regard God, quite... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - 1924 - 606 pages
...poetic illusion is thus finely expressed : Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade. It is the characteristic attitude... | |
 | Constance Classen - 1998 - 264 pages
...fragrance" appeared to many to have become "cold, colourless, silent and dead."1 As John Keats would put it: Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow.2 The sensory symbolism suppressed by Enlightenment science, however, would be revived and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...With horrid warning gaped wide And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill's side. 5460 'Iamia' n the gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow. 5461 'Lamia' She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilllon-spotted,... | |
 | Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 pages
...destroy their 'warm cloistered hours': Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade. These notorious lines have often been... | |
 | Chris Andrews - 1999 - 420 pages
...to Newton's explanation of the rainbow: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person 'd Lamia melt into a shade. There are two noteworthy assumptions... | |
 | John Gage - 1999 - 344 pages
...know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy wilt dip an Angel's wings. Conquer all mysteries by rule and...the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow. (John Keats, Lamia. 1819) IN ONE of the earliest histories of optics the eighteenth-century English... | |
 | John E. Thornes, John Constable - 1999 - 292 pages
...scientific explanation of the colours of the rainbow, which he thought robbed the rainbow of its mystery: Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mineUnweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-persona 'Lamia melt into a shade. But Keats wrote... | |
 | David Lyon - 1999 - 148 pages
...and streets. They inhere in the patterns and paths of social interaction. According to John Keats: Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Conquer all...mysteries by rule and line. Empty the haunted air. the gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow.29 But as Weber reminds us, 'rule and line' could equally apply to... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 pages
...implicational theory, but it is not the only one. 16 Unweaving the rainbow: Separating the strands There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...the haunted air, and gnomed mine. Unweave a rainbow. John Keats, 'Lamia' (1820) Language has some similarities to the rainbow.1 Both can be partially separated... | |
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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... 
