Margate, Saturday Eve My dear Haydon, “Let Fame, that all pant after in their lives, Live register’d upon our brazen tombs, And so grace us in the disgrace of death: When spite of cormorant devouring Time The endeavour of this present breath may buy That Honour which shall bate his Scythe’s keen edge And …
Category: Letters
Letters of John Keats
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To John Hamilton Reynolds (London, March 2, 1817]
[London,] Sunday Evening [March 2, 1817] My dear Reynolds Your kindness affects me so sensibly that I can merely put down a few mono-sentences. Your Criticism only makes me extremely anxious that I should not deceive you. It’s the finest thing by God as Hazlitt would say. However I hope I may not deceive you. …
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