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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... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Page 165
by Allan Cunningham - 1830
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William Blake

Basil De Selincourt - 2000 - 396 pages
...but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out the line, and you leave out life itself ; all is chaos...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggi o or Rembrandt, or any other of the plagiaries of Venice or Flanders."...
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"Four Mighty Ones are in Every Man": The Development of the Fourfold in Blake

Dóra Janzer Csikós - 2003 - 142 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;...again, and the line of the almighty must be drawn upon it before man or beast can exist" (DexC 63-64). Outline and Urizen: these aesthetic and ethical...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Art: Uncollected Articles ...

William Butler Yeats - 2010 - 672 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;...drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist." 11. William Hyde illustrated Yeats's article "Popular Ballad Poetry of Ireland," The Leisure Hour,...
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Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake

Northrop Frye - 2004 - 588 pages
...branches. . . . What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate? . . . Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself;...must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist.30 This principle is not confined to painting. The first imaginative effort in music is also...
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The Monthly Review, Volume 9

1902 - 664 pages
...out this line (the bounding line, Blake calls it, the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty) and you leave out life itself ; all is chaos again,...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Strauss, it seems to me, lacks this rectitude and certainty of the bounding line, and that is why his...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein - 2007 - 560 pages
...and certainty in the actions and intentions? Leave out this line and you leave out life itself; and all is chaos again, and the line of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist.'13 He even insisted that 'colouring does not depend upon where the colours are put, but upon...
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