“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.” DeathSpiritDiesSleepSkyWeakSickHardshipMortalityEaglesUnwillingSteepPinnacleGodlike Book:The Complete Works of John Keats Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.” StatesBodySpiritPurposeHurtParticularCriticismWoundsIgnorantMortalityApplicationModestStrainScopeSinisterInterpreterMaliciousSpleen Author:Ben Jonson