 I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of...  Life of John Keats - Seite 94von William Michael Rossetti - 1887 - 217 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1849 - 606 Seiten
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 420 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped...Woodhouse, &c., I am, Yours very sincerely, JOHN KEATS. On returning to the south, Keats found his brother alarmingly ill, and immediately joined him at Teignmouth.... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped...with remembrances to Taylor and Woodhouse, &c., I am, Your's very sincerely, JOHN KEATS. On returning to the south, Keats found his brother alarmingly ill,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1848 - 794 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.' — Ib. p. 214. Soon after, the death of his youngest brother, of the same complaint that ere long... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 Seiten
...thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if 1 had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." — pp. 214, 215, vol. i. Still, there is sufficient trace, even in the boldest of his letters, of... | |
 | 1848 - 578 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped...silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice." So again in one of his easy confidential letters to his brother George — in which it is his custom... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 574 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the sounding», the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and taken tea and comfortable advice. 1 was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be... | |
 | 1849 - 588 Seiten
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | 1849 - 636 Seiten
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than• not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | 1849 - 290 Seiten
...the sea, and thereby have beeome better aequainted with tho soundings, the quieksands and the roeks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and taken tea and eomfortable adviee. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be... | |
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