Letters of John Keats to Fanny BrawneBroughton and Dunham, 1901 - 116 pages |
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Page 23 - I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. I hate the world: it batters too much the wings of my selfwill, and would I could take a sweet poison from your lips to send me out of it.
Page 91 - I should run round and surprise you with a knock at the door. I fear I am too prudent for a dying kind of lover. Yet there is a great difference between going off in warm blood, like Romeo, and making one's exit like a frog in a frost.
Page 63 - Now I have had opportunities of passing nights anxious and awake, I have found other thoughts intrude upon me. " If I should die," said I to myself, " I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Page 43 - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving — I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.
Page 32 - Ч is well perhaps I have not. I could not have endured the throng of jealousies that used to haunt me before I had plunged so deeply into imaginary interests. I would fain, as my sails are set, sail on without an interruption for a Brace of Months longer — I am in complete cue — in the fever ; and shall in these four Months do an immense deal.
Page 13 - .that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.
Page 2 - Arms are good, her hands bad-ish — her feet tolerable — she is not seventeen — but she is ignorant — monstrous in her behaviour, flying out in all directions, calling people such names — that I was forced lately to make use of the term Minx — this is I think not from any innate vice but from a penchant she has for acting stylishly. I am however tired of such style and shall decline any more of it.
Page 56 - I am recommended not even to read poetry, much less write it. I wish I had even a little hope. I cannot say forget me — but I would mention that there are impossibilities in the world.
Page 12 - I could never have lov'd you? —I cannot conceive any beginning of such love as I have for you but Beauty. There may be a sort of love for which, without the least sneer at it, I have the highest resped and can admire it in others: but it has not the richness, the bloom, the full form, the enchantment of love after my own heart.