..."The imagination of a boy is healthy" — one can hardly forbear going on with the immortal words — "and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ;...character undecided, the way of life uncertain." The xiv INTRODUCTION faculty of design, the certain control of beauty, were still to come. But come they...

...transition? ' The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but the space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment,...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted ; thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily...

...leave me alone with the conviction that there is not a fiercer hell than the failure of a great object. The imagination of a boy is healthy; and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily...

...greatest poets of Europe had written words which seem meant to characterize an adolescence such as his. "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceed mawkishness and a thousand bitters." It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixteenth...

...greatest poets of Europe had written words which seem meant to characterize an adolescence such as his. "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceed mawkishness and a thousand bitters." It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixteenth...

...denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished." Again, with remarkably clear insight, " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness." Clearly Keats was in this " space of life between " when he wrote Endymivn,...

...go-cart. Did any critic ever sketch with firmer hand the mental condition of a young man in transition ? ' The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted ; thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak ot must necessarily...

...people of about twenty-one. It is a bad season. ' The imagination,' said a great poet of the very age, ' of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted. . . .' 2 And particularly in a real poet, where the disturbing influences of passion and fancy are...

...is simply right. " The imagination of a boy is healthy," Keats writes in the preface to Endymion, " and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness." When Apollonius conceived and executed the first draft of his Argonautica,...

...greatest poets of Europe had written words which seem meant to characterise an adolescence such as his. "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceed mawkishness and a thousand bitters." It is easy to discover that Ibsen, from his sixteenth...