 A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity — he is continually in for and filling some other Body — The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them...  The Benares magazine - Page 2541850Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...filling some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of an impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity ; he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self ; and if I am... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...more ? Might I not at that very instant have been cogitating on the characters of Saturn and Ops ? It is a wretched thing to confess, but it is a very...fact, that not one word I ever utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical nature. How can it, when I have no nature ? When... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self, and if I am a... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 414 pages
...filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self, and if I am a... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...filling some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of an impulse, oileau and the ancients. One group debated whether Paradise Lost ought ; he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self ; and if I am... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...filling some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of an impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity ; he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self ; and if I am... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...filling some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of an impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none, no identity ; he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self; and if I am... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...more ? Might I not at that very in.»tant have been cogitating in the character of Saturn and Ops? It is a wretched thing to confess, but it is a very fact, that not one word I utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical nature. How can it be when... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...no more ? Might I not at that very instant have been cogitating in the character of Saturn and Ops? It is a wretched thing to confess, but it is a very fact, that not one word I utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical nature. How can it be when... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poets, English - 1867 - 388 pages
...filling, frome "Other bocfyT^The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of "all God's creatures. If, then, he has no self, and if I am... | |
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