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" Thel's Motto Does the Eagle know what is in the pit: Or wilt thou go ask the Mole ? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl? "
The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography - Page 152
by Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 443 pages
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The Rowfant Books: A Selection of One Hundred Titles from the Collection of ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1833 - 114 pages
...of 8 leaves, colored by Blake. The leaf preceding the title, printed in green: "Thel's Motto, Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go...be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl? " is very often missing. At the top of this leaf is written " FT Palgrave 1852," presumably in Palgrave's...
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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus": With Selections from His Poems and ...

Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...his works to which it belongs, may prove the most generally acceptable as a specimen of these.] Does the Eagle, know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go...put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl! THE daughters of the Seraphim led round their sunny flocks, All but the youngest : she in paleness sought...
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William Blake: A Critical Essay

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 pages
...inveighs against faith in matter and "respect of persons" under their perishable and finite forms: "Can wisdom be put in a silver rod or love in a golden bowl ? is the son of a king warmed without wool ? or does he cry with a voice of thunder? does he look upon...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: The ...

John Ruskin - 1872 - 252 pages
...literature. One of these passages I will ask you to remember; it will often be serviceable to you — " Doth the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go ask the mole?" It would be impossible to express to you in briefer terms the great truth that there is a different...
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The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art ...

John Ruskin - 1872 - 252 pages
...or above. For, singularly enough, men are always most conceited of the meanest science: — " Doth the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go ask the Mole ? " It is just those who grope with the mole, and cling ^ with the bat, who are vainest of their sight...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ ..., Issue 68, Volume 4

John Ruskin - 1872 - 252 pages
...literature. One of these passages I will ask you to remember ; it will often be serviceable to you — "Doth the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go ask the mole?" It would be impossible to express to you in briefer terms the great truth that there is a different...
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Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other ..., Volume 2

Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 534 pages
...generally acceptable as a specimen of these.] Does the Eagle know what is in the pit ? Or wilt tlwu go and ask the mole ? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl ? THE daughters of the Seraphim led round their sunny flocks, All but the youngest : she in paleness sought...
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Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other ..., Volume 1

Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 508 pages
...his works to which it belongs, may prove the most generally acceptable as a specimen of these.] Does the Eagle know what is in the pit ? Or wilt thou go aiid ask the mole ? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden boivl? THE daughters of...
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The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake

William Blake - 1885 - 302 pages
...of Jesus set me fre» : Then what have I to do with thee ? THE BOOK OF THEL. (ENGRAVED 1789.) Does the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go...be put in a silver rod, Or love in a golden bowl? rT"*HE Daughters of the Seraphim led round their •*- sunny flocks — All but the youngest : she...
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The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake

William Blake - 1885 - 330 pages
...with thee f THE BOOK OF THEL. (ENGRAVED 1789.) Does the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt them go ask the Mole ? Can wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or lore in a golden bowl? *T*HE Daughters of the Seraphim led round their •*• sunny flocks — All...
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