 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...  Notes and Queries - Seite 2631916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Warren Cohen, James M. Henle - 2005 - 1014 Seiten
...light. Others, like Keats and Blake, felt his work with optics had destroyed beauty. Here is Keats: In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy...haunted air. and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow. Section 2.4: Differential Equations 1. 3. (Answer in text.) Ben Jonson satirized Newton in his play... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 Seiten
...nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class. — KWAME NKRUMAH Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow. — JOHN KEATS He has a first-rate mind until he makes it up. — VIOLET BONHAM CARTER II DING FF OF... | |
 | Valerie Kirschenbaum - 2005 - 434 Seiten
...Newton would "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors. He worried that Science would "clip an Angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule...and line, empty the haunted air and gnomed mine." Coleridge claimed that "the real antithesis of poetry is not prose, but Science." And Poe called the... | |
 | Nathalie Sinclair, William Higginson - 2007 - 288 Seiten
...'cold philosophy', by which he meant mathematics and science (called 'natural philosophy' in his time). There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, [...] For the poet, the rainbow may be a miraculous symbol of hope: "My heart leaps up when I behold... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 Seiten
...were they pround? again we ask aloud, Why in the name of Glory were they proud? ' ° mm : II.229-37 Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbaow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common... | |
 | Gavin Pretor-Pinney - 2006 - 334 Seiten
...through water droplets. For Keats, there was no soul in the 'cold philosophy' of Newton's explanations: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air,... | |
 | Linda Zagzebski - 2007 - 265 Seiten
...who think that philosophy is detrimental to faith. Look at the words of the English poet John Keats: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. (Lamia, pt II, 229-34, in Keats (1978) p. 472) 28 See ch. 7 of his Prescription Against Heretics: Tertullian... | |
 | Alexandra Böhm - 2008 - 374 Seiten
...ihr der Philosoph Appolonius als Widersacher gegenüber. Der Erzähler von Lamia kommentiert: [...] Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an AngePs wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave... | |
 | Gavin Pretor-Pinney - 2007 - 332 Seiten
...'cold philosophy' of Newton's explanations: Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all...the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person 'd Lamia melt into the shade.6 Altostratus sometimes exhibits... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2007 - 224 Seiten
...reducing it to a prism." Natural philosophy, he complained in his 1820 poem Lamia, will clip an Angels wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow. Keats's contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge similarly averred, "the souls of 500 Sir Isaac Newtons... | |
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