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In a few days after, he marched himself, at the head of six thousand of his own soldiers, and a smaller number of Aetolians, as many as could be collected in haste, out of those who were at Lamia. The Roman soldiers, who were likewise about five hundred, came, after Menippus had fixed his camp under Salganea, at Hermaeus, the place of passage from Boeotia to the island of Euboea.
He sat down at the piano and played a plaintive little air, small and sweet and shivering. "Japonaiserie d'hiver," he explained. Then he changed the burden of his song into a melody rapid and winding, with curious tricklings among the bass notes. "Lamia," said Reggie, "or Lilith."
The Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode on Melancholy, Lamia, and Isabella, all show the unusual charm of Keats. He manifests the greatest strength in his unfinished fragment Hyperion, "the Götterdämmerung of the early Grecian gods." The opening lines reveal the artistic perfection of form and the effectiveness of the sensory images with which he frames the scene:
Among the prisoners was the celebrated Lamia, famed at one time for her skill on the flute, and afterwards renowned as a mistress. And although now upon the wane of her youthful beauty, and though Demetrius was much her junior, she exercised over him so great a charm, that all other women seemed to be amorous of Demetrius, but Demetrius amorous only of Lamia.
Ollier, written on 14 May, 1820, before the actual publication of the Lamia volume: 'Keats, I hope, is going to show himself a great poet; like the sun, to burst through the clouds which, though dyed in the finest colours of the air, obscured his rising. Keats died in Rome on 23 February, 1821. Soon afterwards Shelley wrote his Adonais.
Endymion: A Poetic Romance. By JOHN KEATS. 8vo. pp. 207. London, 1818. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems. By JOHN KEATS, Author of Endymion. 12mo. pp. 200. London, 1820. We had never happened to see either of these volumes till very lately and have been exceedingly struck with the genius they display, and the spirit of poetry which breathes through all their extravagance.
With this insolence it is satisfactory to contrast the verdict of the Edinburgh: "We have been exceedingly struck with the genius these poems Endymion, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, &c. display, and the spirit of poetry which breathes through all their extravagance. . . . They are at least as full of genius as absurdity."
And uttering these words with all sorts of affected airs and simperings, Lamia took a little significant peep in a small mirror of cast metal which she drew from her bosom, and which enabled her to lead back to duty certain wandering curls disarranged by the impertinence of the wind.
The rest he punished upon very trivial occasions; as Aelius Lamia for some jocular expressions, which were of old date, and perfectly harmless; because, upon his commending his voice after he had taken his wife from him , he replied, "Alas! I hold my tongue." And when Titus advised him to take another wife, he answered him thus: "What! have you a mind to marry?"
"When they go with such an ensemble." "The ensemble du serpent?" "If you will. Woman was tempted by a serpent; why not man?" "She is certainly very graceful; but she wants a tinge of color in her cheeks. It is a sort of Lamia beauty she has." "On the contrary, I think her complexion one of her chief charms. It is a warm paleness; it looks thoroughly healthy.
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