 Now it is more noble to sit like Jove than to fly like Mercury — let us not therefore go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there impatiently from a knowledge of what is to be aimed at; but let us open our leaves like a flower...  The Letters of John Keats - Page 90by John Keats - 1895 - 522 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 pages
...and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is to be arrived at ; but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favors us with a visit. Sap will be given us for meat, and dew for drink. I was led into these thoughts,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 288 pages
...and collecting honey, bee-like, buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is to be arrived at ; but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...Sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink." 23 "These pages," says Mr. Milnes, "concern one whose whole story may be summed up in the composition... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 290 pages
...and collecting honey, bee-like, buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is to be arrived at ; but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect thai favours us with a visit. Sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink." " These pages," says... | |
 | 1850 - 540 pages
...the bee. The flower I doubt not receives a fair guerdon from the bee. Let us open our leaves like the flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently...every noble insect that favours us with a visit." It is pleasing to see from a letter written to his brother during the same year that the glory of imagination... | |
 | John Keats - 1899 - 510 pages
...earnestly of the sources of inspiration to a poet, and especially of the need of a receptive attitude : ' Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...noble insect that favours us with a visit — Sap will oe given us for meat, and dew for drink. I was led into these thoughts, my dear Reynolds, by the beauty... | |
 | John Keats - 1899 - 516 pages
...earnestly of the sources of inspiration to a poet, and especially of the need of a receptive attitude : ' Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...noble insect that favours us with a visit — Sap will r* given us for meat, and dew for drink. I *ss led into these thoughts, my dear Reynolds, by the beauty... | |
 | John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1899 - 530 pages
...and especially of the need of a receptive attitude : ' Let ns open our leaves like a flower, and he passive and receptive ; budding patiently under the...noble insect that favours us with a visit — Sap will oe given us for meat, and dew for drink. I wat led into these thoughts, my dear Reynolds, by the beauty... | |
 | John Keats - 1899 - 520 pages
...earnestly of the sources of inspiration to a poet, and especially of the need of a receptive attitude : ' Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive...receptive; budding patiently under the eye of Apollo and tuking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit — Sap will ne given ns for meat,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there impatiently from a knowledge of what is lo be aimed al ; ablished Truth, or startled Error, The Baptist found...deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the hinls from every noble insecl lhat favours us with a visit. Sap will be given us for meat, and dew... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 308 pages
...collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there impatiently from a knowledge of what is to be aimed at; but let us open our leaves like a flower and be passive...for drink. I was led into these thoughts, my dear Eeynolds, by the beauty of the morning operating on a sense of Idleness — I have not read any Books... | |
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