 | Arthur Symons - 1924 - 262 pages
...out this line (the bounding line, Blake calls it, the hard and wiry line of reftitude and certainty) and you leave out life itself ; all is chaos again,...drawn out upon it before man or beaSt can exist." Strauss, it seems to me, lacks this reftitude and certainty of the bounding line, and that is why his... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1918 - 554 pages
...certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line and you leave out life itself; and all in chaos again, and the line of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist.' He even insisted that 'colouring does not depend upon where the colours are put, but upon where the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1924 - 176 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself. All is chance again, and the line of the Almighty mu$t be drawn out upon it again, before man or beaSt can... | |
 | William Blake - 1926 - 398 pages
...knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty) Page 65 in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggio, or Rembrandt, or any \ other of those plagiaries of Venice or Flanders.... | |
 | Mona Wilson - 1927 - 476 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself;...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. The Catalogue closes quietly with a dignified expression of selfconfidence: If a man is master of his... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself;...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggio, or Rembrandt, or any other of those plagiaries of Venice or Flanders.... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 456 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself....the line of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it again before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggio or liembrandt, or any of those... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...so invention can speak clearly. Indeed, Blake makes the analogy explicit in A Descriptive Catalogue: "Leave out this line and you leave out life itself;...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist" (E 550). By these acts invention is articulated, is clear and intelligible utterance; without them,... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions. Leave out this l[i]ne and you leave out life itself;...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. (E 550) The uncompromising link between art and morality is startling, even though Morris Eaves has... | |
 | Peter Lomas - 1994 - 172 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again, and the line of the ahnighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Quoted in Kathleen Raine, William... | |
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What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate ? What is it that distinguishes honesty from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and... 
