"Could taste so nauseous to the bodily sense, / As these prodigious sycophants disgust / The soul's fine palate. "
— Keats, John (1795-1821) [in collab. with Brown]
Work Title
Date
1848
Metaphor
"Could taste so nauseous to the bodily sense, / As these prodigious sycophants disgust / The soul's fine palate. "
Metaphor in Context
LUDOLPH
Not the discoloured poisons of a fen,
Which he who breathes feels warning of his death,
Could taste so nauseous to the bodily sense,
As these prodigious sycophants disgust
The soul's fine palate.
Not the discoloured poisons of a fen,
Which he who breathes feels warning of his death,
Could taste so nauseous to the bodily sense,
As these prodigious sycophants disgust
The soul's fine palate.
Categories
Provenance
HDIS
Citation
Keats, John. Complete Poems. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Date of Entry
09/26/2003
