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" Mock on' Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on: 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem, Reflected in the beams divine. Blown back they blind the mocking eye,... "
Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings - Page 119
by Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 431 pages
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The Holistic Inspirations of Physics: The Underground History of ...

Val Dusek - 1999 - 408 pages
...Enlightenment attitudes thought to follow from it, is found in this poem: Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau Mock on. "Tis all in vain You throw the sand against the wind And the wind blows it back again. . . . The atoms of Democritus And Newtons Particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore Where...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...preface 'And did those feet in ancient time' 2 Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, mock on: lis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. MX .Vote-Book 3 The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red sea...
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The Gnostics

Tobias Churton - 1997 - 216 pages
...Imagination - for we come from it, that is to say, the eternal forms create us, not the reverse. So: Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau, Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain; You throw the dust against the wind, And the wind blows it back again We all know the hymn 'Jerusalem' which exclaims,...
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Nyūmon gunyū īmakkusu

デボラキャメロン, ビルローゼンブラッド, エリックレイモンド - 1999 - 614 pages
...Л Л : Cx Cf blake Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Help ïock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau •lock on Mock on tis all in vain You throw the sand against the wind ftnd the wind blows it back again. Emacs: blake (Text Fill)- -LI- -All It was the best of times, it...
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The Selected Poems of William Blake

William Blake - 2000 - 420 pages
...up from shite, What might he not do if he sat down to write? Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 1H Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock...mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. I saw a Monk of Charlemaine i I saw a Monk of Charlemaine Arise before my sight: I talk'd to the Grey...
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Discovery of God

Rafiq Zakaria - 2000 - 368 pages
...of all causes, man could not have survived as the best and the most creative of all His creations: Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau, Mock on, mock...sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again.10 Monotheistic Stirrings The search for One God began in a hesitant but somewhat organized way...
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"Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg

Tony Trigilio - 2000 - 222 pages
...the same purpose for Blake as does throwing sand in the wind in "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau": Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau Mock on Mock on!...vain! You throw the sand against the wind And the wind throws it blows it back again[.] (Complete Poetry and Prose, 477) Nothing imaginative is produced in...
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Explanation: Theoretical Approaches and Applications

Giora Hon, Sam S. Rakover - 2001 - 372 pages
...answer to all doubters and to all those who might suggest that religious language was metaphorical: Scoffers Mock on, mock on, Voltaire Rousseau; Mock...they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's path they shine The Atoms of Democritus And Newton's Particles of Light Are sands upon the Red Sea...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...slavery, prostitution, war. 109 And rationalism itself was, finally, a profanation of divine mystery: Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, Mock...against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. 110 Enlighteners bent on demystification held that the sleep of reason bred monsters. Blake, however,...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...sandwichman, himself sandwiched between two advertising boards, may still be seen on crowded streets. Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock...against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. -William Blake, Mock On bhes II: breathe. Imitative of inhalation and exhalation, which are from L...
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