15th
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From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
1817
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
1818
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
21
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a record or narrative description of past events
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the performance of a part or role in a drama
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
actor'snounUS /ˈæktərz/
possessive form of “actor” — a theatrical performer
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
anew
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
in addition
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
BacchusnounUS /ˈbækɪs/
(classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
BasilnounUS /ˈbæzəl/
any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
earlier than; in front of
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
terminate
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
break-up
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Burford
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From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
chambersnounUS /ˈtʃeɪmbərz/
English architect (1723-1796)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
ChampionnounUS /ˈtʃæmpiən/
someone who has won first place in a competition
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
Chieftain'snounUS /ˈtʃiːftənz/
possessive form of “chieftain” — the leader of a group of people
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
compilernounUS /kəmˈpaɪlər/
a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
correspondencenounUS /ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndəns/
communication by the exchange of letters
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
criticismnounUS /ˈkrɪtɪsɪzəm/
disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
criticismsnounUS /ˈkrɪtɪsɪzəmz/
plural of “criticism” — disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the specified day of the month
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
a female human offspring
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
DECEMBERnounUS /dɪˈsembər/
the last (12th) month of the year
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Dillon
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
DisillusionnounUS /ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒən/
freeing from false belief or illusions
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
dramaticadjectiveUS /drəˈmætɪk/
suitable to or characteristic of drama
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
Drury
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From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
owed and payable immediately or on demand
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
a British peer of the highest rank
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
EMIGRATIONnounUS /ˌeməˈɡreɪʃən/
migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Endymion
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
EpistlenounUS /ɪˈpɪsəl/
a specially long, formal letter
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
exactadjectiveUS /ɪɡˈzækt/
Strictly particular and correct.
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
Exeter
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
undergo or live through a difficult experience
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a social unit living together
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
FebruarynounUS /ˈfebjəweri/
the month following January and preceding March
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
finishingnounUS /ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ/
a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
firstadjectiveUS /fɜːrst/
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
forgetsverbUS /fərˈɡets/
third-person singular of “forget” — dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
following the third position; number four in a countable series
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
applying to all or most members of a category or group
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Giovanni
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
destroyed or killed
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
HAMPSTEAD
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
hashnounUS /hæʃ/
chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
hauntingadjectiveUS /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/
continually recurring to the mind
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Haydon
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Hazlittnoun
English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
Hazlitt's
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
holidaynounUS /ˈhɑːlədeɪ/
leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
IIInoun
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
illnessnounUS /ˈɪlnəs/
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
immortaladjUS /ɪˈmɔːr.t̬əl/
Living forever; never dying or decaying. (Bất tử, trường tồn vĩnh cửu.)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
impatiencenounUS /ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
IsabellanounUS /ˌɪzəˈbelə/
the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the month following May and preceding July
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
KeannounUS /kiːn/
English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833)
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
KEATSnounUS /kiːts/
Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Keats's
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From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
LambnounUS /læm/
young sheep
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a narrow way or road
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
the superlative of “little” that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by “the”; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
lecturesnounUS /ˈlektʃərz/
plural of “lecture” — a speech that is open to the public
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the literary culture
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
lodgingnounUS /ˈlɑːdʒɪŋ/
structures collectively in which people are housed
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
Macready
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
MaximsnounUS /ˈmæksəmz/
plural of “maxim” — a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
a formally arranged gathering
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the force of workers available
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
mid-Decembernoun
the middle part of December
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
name-part
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
a condition requiring relief
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
not any; not one
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
pantomimenounUS /ˈpæntəmaɪm/
a performance using gestures and body movements without words
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
something determined in relation to something that includes it
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the local environment
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
performancenounUS /pərˈfɔːrməns/
a dramatic or musical entertainment
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
plural of “plan” — a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
participate in games or sport
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
(of games) engaged in
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
PotnounUS /pɑːt/
metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
PrefacenounUS /ˈprefəs/
a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
past form of “print” — put into print
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
with considerable certainty; without much doubt
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
past form of “produce” — bring forth or yield
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
prolificadjectiveUS /proʊˈlɪfɪk/
intellectually productive
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
QuarrelsnounUS /ˈkwɔːrəlz/
plural of “quarrel” — an angry dispute
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Rants
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
re-appearance
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From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
reflectionsnounUS /rɪˈflekʃənz/
plural of “reflection” — a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
RetributionnounUS /ˌret.rəˈbjuː.ʃən/
Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong act. (Sự trừng phạt, quả báo thích đáng.)
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
past form of “return” — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
ReynoldsnounUS /ˈrenəldz/
English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
possessing material wealth
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
Richard
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From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
Shakespeare'snounUS /ˈʃeɪkspiːrz/
possessive form of “shakespeare” — English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
ShelleynounUS /ˈʃeli/
English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
yielding readily to pressure or weight
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
sonnetsnounUS /ˈsɑːnɪts/
plural of “sonnet” — a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
any distinct time period in a sequence of events
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
substituteverbUS /ˈsʌbstətuːt/
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
TEIGNMOUTH
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From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
ThirstnounUS /θɜːrst/
a physiological need to drink
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading From finishing _Endymion_ at Burford Bridge Keats returned some time before mid-December to his Hampstead lodging.
a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
hard to endure
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
uncertainadjectiveUS /ənˈsɜːrtən/
lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
VInounUS /vaɪ/
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
villainnounUS /ˈvɪlən/
a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The exact date is uncertain; but it was in time to see Kean play _Richard III_ at Drury Lane on the 15th--the actor's first performance after a break of some weeks due to illness.
the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
plural of “week” — any period of seven consecutive days
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
in the company of; together with
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
WordsworthnounUS /ˈwɜːrdzwərθ/
a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)
From this reading DECEMBER 1817-JUNE 1818: HAMPSTEAD AND TEIGNMOUTH: EMIGRATION OF GEORGE KEATS Hampstead again: stage criticism--Hazlitt's lectures--Life at Well Walk--Meeting with Wordsworth--The 'immortal dinner'--Lamb forgets himself--More of Wordsworth--A happy evening--Wordsworth on Bacchus--Disillusion and impatience--Winter letters--Maxims and reflections--Quarrels among friends--Haydon, Hunt and Shelley--A prolific February--Rants and sonnets--A haunting memory--Six weeks at Teignmouth--Soft weather and soft men--_Isabella_ or _the Pot of Basil_--Rich correspondence--Epistle to Reynolds--Thirst for knowledge--Need of experience--The two chambers of thought--Summer plans--Preface to _Endymion_--A family break-up--To Scotland with Brown.
produce a literary work
From this reading No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
inflected form of “write” — produce a literary work
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
From this reading J. H. Reynolds had gone to Exeter for a Christmas holiday, and Keats, acting as his substitute, wrote four dramatic criticisms for the _Champion_: the first, printed on December 21, on Kean in general and his re-appearance as Richard III in particular; a second on a hash of the three parts of Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ produced under the title _Richard Duke of York_, with Kean in the name-part and probably Kean also as compiler; a third on a tragedy of small account by one Dillon, called _Retribution_, or the _Chieftain's Daughter_, in which the young Macready played the part of the villain; and a fourth on a pantomime of _Don Giovanni_.