 What you start from is nothing so definite as an emotion, in any ordinary sense; it is still more certainly not an idea; it is— to adapt two lines of Beddoes to a different meaning— a bodiless childful of life in the gloom Crying with frog voice,...  The Works of George Chapman ... - Pagina xxxvdoor George Chapman - 1875Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes - 1850 - 200 pagina’s
...hearts: So listen to us. Song by Isbrand. Squats on a toad-stool under a tree A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom, Crying with frog voice, " What shall I be ? Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me Scarcely alive in her wicked womb. What shall I be ? shall... | |
 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes - 1851 - 304 pagina’s
...hearts : So listen to us. Song by Isbrand. Squats on a toad-stool under a tree A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom, Crying with frog voice, " What shall I be ? Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me Scarcely alive in her wicked womb. What shall I be ? shall... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 204 pagina’s
...themselves when detached from the incoherent and disorderly context, was apparently as incapable of doing justice to the art of Massinger as of reducing...the gloom, Crying with frog voice, What shall I be V Perhaps too for him the taint of Gilford's patronage was still on Massinger, and the good offices... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pagina’s
...philosophic poet, and probably more amused than annoyed at being confounded with his own 'bodyless child-full of life in the gloom, Crying with frog- voice, " What shall I be ? " ' There is certainly nothing vague, nothing misty or dubious about the poetic entity of Beddoes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pagina’s
...philosophic poet, and probably more amused than annoyed at being confounded with his own 'bodyless child-full of life in the gloom, Crying with frog- voice, " What shall I be ? " ' There is certainly nothing vague, nothing misty or dubious about the poetic entity of Beddoes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pagina’s
...poet, and probably more amused than annoyed at being confounded with his own •bodyless child full of life in the gloom, Crying with frog- voice, " What shall I be ? " ' There Is certainly nothing vague, nothing misty or dubious about the poetic entity of Beddoes... | |
 | Royall Henderson Snow - 1928 - 250 pagina’s
...picking poisons to make the rats a salad." Squats on a toad-stool under a tree A bodiless child full of life in the gloom, Crying with frog voice, What shall I be? Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me Scarcely alive in her wicked womb. What shall I be? shall... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pagina’s
...examples of his deliberately sensational imagery: Squats on a toad-stool under a tree A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom Crying with frog voice, 'What shall I be? Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me Scarcely alive in her wicked womb . . .' The "Dirge for... | |
 | Denise Levertov - 1981 - 314 pagina’s
...the passage from TS Eliot's Three Voices of Poetry in which Eliot, alluding to a line from Beddoes, "bodiless childful of life in the gloom / crying with frog voice, 'What shall I be?'" noted that there is "first ... an inert embryo or 'creative germ' and, on the other hand, the language... | |
 | Denise Levertov - 1992 - 278 pagina’s
...the passage from TS Eliot's Three Voices of Poetry in which Eliot, alluding to a line from Beddoes, "bodiless childful of life in the gloom /crying with frog voice, 'What shall I be?'" noted that there is "first ... an inert embryo or 'creative germ* and, on the other hand, the language... | |
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