...Motion'd him to be silent ; vainly so, He look'd and look'd again a level — No I " A serpent I " echoed he ; no sooner said, Than with a frightful...Supported him — no pulse, or breath they found, 310 And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.1 1 " Philostratua, in his fourth book de Vita...

...30C Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging : she, as well As her weak hand could any meaning tell, Motion'd him to be silent ; vainly so, He look'd and look'd...delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night f3n the high couch he lay 1 — his friends came round — Supported him — no pulse, or breath they...

...meaning tell, Motion'd him to be silent ; vainly so, He look'd and look'd again a level — No ! " A Serpent !" echoed he ; no sooner said, Than with...night. On the high couch he lay ! — his friends came roundSupported him — no pulse, or breath they found, And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound....

...unimaginative eye of Apollonius, who exposes her despite her protest to him to be silent: No! "A serpentl" echoed he; no sooner said, Than with a frightful scream...his friends came round— Supported him— no pulse, no breath they found, And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.4 Bereft of the beautiful Lamia...

...could any meaning tell, Motion'd him to be silent; vainly so, He look'd and look'd again a level - No! 'A serpent!' echoed he; no sooner said, Than with...round Supported him - no pulse, or breath they found, 310 Isabella or The Pot of Basil A Story from Boccaccio Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a...

...owned part of Wentworth Place in Hampstead where Keats lived as a tenant. 1 3 lauding - praising. 305 Than with a frightful scream she vanished: And Lycius'...Supported him — no pulse, or breath they found, 310 And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound. To GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS Saturday [18 September...

...look'd again a level — No! "A serpent!" echoed J\e, no sooner said, Tlian with a frightful scream slie vanished: And Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of lift, from tlrnt same night. On the high couch he lay! - his friends came round Supported him - no...

...withdraw into impartiality, concluding with what Stewart righdy calls "this cool, measured epitaph" (35): "And Lycius' arms were empty of delight, / As were his limbs of life, from that same night" (2.307-8). Equally cool and measured is the narrator's "moral" from "faery land," that "Love in a palace...

...whirling in the psychic maelstrom of involvement with Fanny Brawne. The ending of the poem is powerful: 'A Serpent!' echoed he; no sooner said, Than with a frightful scream she vanished: And Lycius's arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night. On the high couch...

...predication) renders the death not just instantaneous but grammatically simultaneous with the loss: And Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night. (2.. 307-8) In the arms of love, "empty of" means bereft of the object of embrace; applied to limbs,...