...practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy... Voltaire, POWERS OF. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...the haunted air and gnomed mine, Unweave a rainbow. Keats. A MODEST PROFESSION. Philosophy is a modest profession, it is all reality and plain dealing;...

...do not profess to be less practical than my age, but yet I prefer poets to philosophers, for — " ' Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all...and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine." " "That is true," answered Francesca. "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven. But we know its woof...

...forgetfulness ; and, for the sage, Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage War on his temples. Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? 230 There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the...

...a farthing half a century ago, is doubtless our most imaginative rendering of the legend which 1 " There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know...is given In the dull catalogue of common things." Keats : Lamia. placed the blind giant in the skies. The most superb of constellations represents even...

...which, from the reports of his conversation, we know him to have held with a certain consistency : " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy...common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, 8* M !2 Yet over such difficulties the true lover of poetry will find himself swiftly borne, until...

...which from the reports of his conversation we know him to have held with a certain consistency:— " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was au awful rainbow once in heaven ; We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue...

...Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt ; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. — Bacon. Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy 1 — Keatt. Philosophy does not look into pedigrees. She did not find Plato noble, but she made him...

...overcome its earlier ambivalence about Lamia by bursting forth with the following rhetorical question: "Do not all charms fly /At the mere touch of cold philosophy?" (2.229-30). The nostalgia that informs the subsequent lines suggests that the narrator has lost something...

...one of nature's beautiful visions — the rainbow. In fact, Keats had merely cast one vote of many Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?...haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.' John Keats, Lamia (1820) on the relationship...

...Keats is partly responsible. "Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings," worries the narrator of Lamia: There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know...she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. (2-2-3 1~3 3 ) 230 Editions of Keats often footnote the "immortal dinner" that Haydon hosted in late...