"Lamia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the defile of Tempe; and as the gorge opens to the south, he beholds all the Larissian plain. This conducts him to the fields of Pharsalia, whence he ascends the mountains south of Pharsalus; then, crossing the bleak and still more elevated region extending from these mountains towards Lamia, he views Mount Pindus far before him, and descending into the plain of the Sperchius, passes the straits of Thermopylae. Afterwards, ascending, Mount Oeta, he beholds opposite to him the snowy point of Lycorea, with the rest of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... so, as he himself, before his death, is said to have been persuaded that he had not taken the right line, and was reforming his style upon the more classical models of the language," Keats made a study of Dryden's versification before writing "Lamia"; but had he lived to the age of Methusaleh, he would not have "reformed his style" upon any such classical models as Lord Byron had in mind. Classical he might have become, in the sense in which "Hyperion" is classical; but in the sense in which Pope was ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers |
