...is not a fiercer hell than the failure of a great object. The imagination of a boy is healthy; and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...necessarily taste in going over the following pages." Nothing can be more correct, more honest, or more beautifully expressed, than this. It exactly hits...

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

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

...hand the mental condition of a young man in transition ? ' The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak ot must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.' It cannot be denied that there are in...

...deed accomplished." Again, with remarkably clear insight, " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness." Clearly Keats was in this " space of life between " when he wrote Endymion, but just as clearly he...

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

...hand the mental condition of a young man in transition ? ' The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...necessarily taste in going over the following pages.' It cannot be denied that there are in Endymion, as the Quarterly Review puts it, ' the most incongruous...

...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 there...ambition thick-sighted : thence proceeds mawkishness." When Apollonius conceived and executed the first draft of his Argonautica, he was in this state of...

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

...the same age as the Maeterlinck of " Serres Chaudes " ? " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there...of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment. . . ." In a young man of the middle class living an easy, sheltered existence, chiefly in our modern...