 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 366 pages
...voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. I cared not for consequences, but wrote." " Then I asked, ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so,...anything.' ' ' Then Ezekiel said, ' The philosophy of tho East taught tho first principles of human perception. Some nations held one principle for the origin... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 508 pages
...the man whose mind is unbalanced will ask with unflinching eye. He is talking familiarly to Isaiah. ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so ? ' What an entangling preliminary question before he ventures to slip the leash of some ' subjective... | |
 | William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It may be read as supplementary to the axiom "Art is Christianity." " Then Ezekiel said : ' The philosophy of the East taught...first principles of human perception. Some nations hold one principle for the origin, and some another. We of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as... | |
 | Century Guild of Artists (London, England) - 1887 - 218 pages
...is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. Then I asked : does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so ? He replied. All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains : but many are not capable of a firm... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 416 pages
...Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It may be read as supplementary to the axiom "Art is Christianity." " Then Ezekiel said : ' The philosophy of the East taught...first principles of human perception. Some nations hold one principle for the origin, and some another. We of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.' Then I asked : ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' 17* BLAKE'S FOEMS, imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains ; but many are not capable of... | |
 | 1903 - 852 pages
...Ezeklel dined with him he asked: "Doea a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so"? and Isaiah replied: "All poets believe that it does, and in ages...are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything." Certainly most of the Erieini are capable of a firm persuasion of something, and probably, if Blake... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1904 - 692 pages
...position and of taste would like to have completed the quartette, icto. rpke poet.nogt tejjs ug tnat jie asked, " Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so ? " and that the prophet -guest answered, "All. poets believe that it does" — a position from which... | |
 | Irene Langridge - 1904 - 322 pages
...driven by Phaethon. In the same " Memorable Fancy" from which I have already quoted, Blake continues, " Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He (Isaiah) replied, All poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion moved... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1909 - 362 pages
...spirit with spiritual realities ' ? 'Then I asked,' he says, in the ' Marriage of Heaven and Hell,' ' does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it...so? He replied : " All poets believe that it does.'! ! Of the definite reality of Blake's visions there can be no question; no question that, as he once... | |
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Then I asked: does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so? 
