...of that one for hours. Weakly, Bernard licked his lips. He tasted something like decay. He went on. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. Oh, he knew a thing or two, did Crazy Bill. He lay with his eyes closed, with his jaw slack, his mouth...

...how he first learnt of the tragedy which was to come into his life.' 27 Fortitude Under Affliction A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. William Blake It probably took quite a few days, if not weeks, for Jackie to grasp the full implications...

...that he wrote, gives us a key to an understanding of all his aphoristic paradoxes; its opening couplet A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage may be compared with the more complex assertion that "Poetry fettered fetters the human race." In Blake's...

...INTRODUCTION To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. (From Auguries of Innocence, William Blake, 1803) These inspirational opening lines from Blake's famous...

...easily might have done, that he too has experienced exhaustion like this, nor does he tell us that 'A robin redbreast in a cage/ Puts all heaven in a rage.' Instead, he acts: There was no one in the laboratory. I switched off the motor, the cage stopped and...

...(New York: WH Freeman & Co., 1996). CHAPTER 11 THE DIGITAL BIG BANG, QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND THE COSMOS To see the world in a grain of sand, And Heaven in...the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. A poem by William Blake, Eighteenth Century Proclaim! in the name of thy Lord [Allah] and Cherisher [The...

...Blake eloquently encapsulated the passionate Romantic rejection of machines and Newton when he wrote: ‘A Robin redbreast in a cage, puts all Heaven in a rage'. The ‘cage' being Newton's ‘universe as machine'. Thus, in Hahnemann, we can see opposing elements...

...her disapproval of zoos, and Elspeth confined herself to including the quotation from William Blake, A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, and to the comment that it was surely more honest to admit that men caged animals in circuses for one...

...frequently were cited by the pamphleteers and even were quoted in speeches in Parliament. Blake's lines "A robin redbreast in a cage / Puts all heaven in a rage" became a slogan linking human and animal freedom, while in "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" he deconstructed...

...sparrow fall to the ground without concern, and quoted Blake's beautiful couplet in the same sense: A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. This caused a titter of amusement, and I lapsed into silence. It is the usual practice after such programs...