 The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity ; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power to resist energy,...  William Blake: A Critical Essay - Page 216by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Century Guild of Artists (London, England) - 1887 - 218 pages
...reciev'd by Men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries. The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains, are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity ; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books, and were arranged in libraries. * • • The giants who formed this world into its sensual...according to the proverb, ' The weak in courage is strong IQ cunning.' Thus one portion of being is the Prolific, the other ihe Devouring ; to the devourer it... | |
 | George Henry Borrow - 1907 - 426 pages
...becomes a harmony, called Albion, and Albion joins Jesus and all is saved. But meanwhile, such are " the Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in its chains, are in truth the causes of its life and the sources of all activity." (198.) We are shut... | |
 | William Blake - 1926 - 398 pages
...and the ancient Britons.1 1 MHH, p. 17 : ' the Antediluvians who are our Energies'. MHH, p. 16 : ' The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains, are in truth the causes of its life, & the sources of all activity ; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...reciev'd by Men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries. The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains, are in truth the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 pages
...Bible, or Norse mythology. It reflects a false understanding of the proper ordering of the human whole: The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains; are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity, but the chains are, the cunning of weak and tame minds, which have power... | |
 | Paola Colaiacomo - 1989 - 404 pages
...tematicamente e linguisticamente, affinità profonde tra il Libro di Urizen e il Marriage of Heaven and Hell: «The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains, are in truth the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power... | |
 | Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 pages
...economics. It is an attempt to go beyond Blake (I leave the text in all its original toomuchness): The Giants who formed this world into its sensual...it in chains, are in truth the causes of its life 8c the sources of all activity; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power... | |
 | David V. Erdman - 1991 - 628 pages
...pronouncement that man is born free but is everywhere in chains: "The Giants who formed this world . . . and now seem to live in it in chains are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity, but the chains are, the cunning of the weak and tame minds, which have... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1992 - 414 pages
...by men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books and were arranged in libraries. The giants who formed this world into its sensual...to the proverb: "The weak in courage is strong in cunning."7 Here, visionary activity of a kind that reworks Dante and Milton and Swedenborg as well... | |
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