 We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale, solitary doves, But eagles, golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first...  The Southern Monthly Magazine - Страница 3621864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Daniel P. Watkins - 1989 - 246 страници
...our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right...law That first in beauty should be first in might." (2.176-78; 181-82; 224-29) Like Coelus, who had attempted to curb Hyperion's wrath, Oceanus understands... | |
 | Paul De Man - 340 страници
...primarily the greater strength of its youth, a transitory value as the following lines explicitly state; "Yea. by that law. another race may drive / Our conquerors to mourn as we do now" lHyp. .II. 230-231). 18. For a complete statement of Holderlin's theory of history, see the essay.... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 страници
...Herder said, only the promise (or perception) of greater beauty. Chapter 20 Evolution of Mind It is the eternal law "That first in beauty should be first in might," Oceanus says in Hyperion (II, 229). But what is beauty? The sea-god's conjunction of the concept of... | |
 | H. A. Guerber, Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1993 - 500 страници
...supplanter, whom he nevertheless admired sincerely, and described in glowing colours to his brothers. " Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas, My dispossessor ? Have ye seen his face f Have ye beheld his chariot, foam'd along By noble winged creatures he hath made ? 1 saw him on the... | |
 | John Keats - 1994 - 554 страници
...eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might: Yea, by that law, another race may drive 230 Our conquerors to mourn as we do now. Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas,16 My dispossessor? Have ye seen his face? Have ye beheld his chariot, foam'd along By noble winged... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - 1994 - 376 страници
...different principle by which the younger race of gods were destined to dispossess their forebears — "the eternal law / That first in beauty should be first in might" (¡1.22829). 176 Wordsworth and Hazlitt were proving materially useful to Keats in considering the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 страници
...— is the basis of his understanding. Oceanus provides a more general explanation by appealing to "'the eternal law / That first in beauty should be first in might.'" In Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" — in one of English poetry's most discussed assertions — "'Beauty... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - 1995 - 324 страници
...fair boughs 225 'Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, 'But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower 'Above us in their beauty, and must reign 'In right...law "That first in beauty should be first in might: 230 'Yea, by that law, another race may drive 'Our conquerors to mourn as we do now. 'Have ye beheld... | |
 | Keith D. White - 1996 - 224 страници
...our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right...law That first in beauty should be first in might." (217-29) Because "golden-feather'd eagles" would exist only in art or the imagination, we must assume... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 страници
...nature, are subject to change: "We fall by course of Nature's law, not force Of thunder, or of Jove . . . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." The articulation of this theme by the more yielding Oceanus, in contrast to the blustering rhetoric... | |
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