 | Jeffrey Hart - 2008 - 285 pages
...Misanthrope and Other Plays, p. 75. 6. The Misanthrope and Other Plays, p. 75. 7. William Blake (untitled): "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! / Mock on,...against the wind, / And the wind blows it back again." 8. Boswell, p. 137. 9. Voltaire, Candide, Or Optimism, trans. John Butt (London: Penguin, 1947), p.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...slavery, prostitution, war.109 And rationalism itself was, finally, a profanation of divine mystery: Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, Mock...sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again."0 Enlighteners bent on demystification held that the sleep of reason bred monsters. Blake, however,... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 2002 - 472 pages
...sand suggests that another poem harks back to the same "vision," and here Newton is mentioned by name: You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind...Blown back they blind the mocking Eye, But still in IsraeTs paths they shine. The Atoms of Democritus And Newton's Particles of light Are sands upon the... | |
 | Carl Freedman - 2002 - 228 pages
...Enlightenment, as a protest against calculation and autonomization in the name of feeling and wholeness: "Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau, / Mock on, mock on, 'tis all in vain," as the arch-Romantic English poet, William Blake, wrote in overt riposte to two of the most eminent... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 pages
...with Voltaire. William Blake, for instance, wrote in his Notebook: Mock, mock Voltaire, Rousseau Mock, mock on 'tis all in vain You throw the sand against the wind And the wind throws it back again (Blake 1979: 184) Burke (and Blake, it seems) used Rousseau as a convenient political... | |
 | 2004 - 184 pages
...imagination, the body, the senses, and sexuality. Thus, in criticism of rationalists, he •writes: Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, Mock...And every sand becomes a Gem Reflected in the beams divine.43 Similarly, he decries three causes of error promoted by "all Bibles or sacred codes": 1.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...God. He was inveterately hostile to the scepticism of the enlightened, preferring a religion of faith: Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, Mock on: 'tis all in vain! 'Voltaire was immersed in matter,' scolds a character in Blake's early unfinished satire 'An Island... | |
 | Enrique Bocardo - 2005 - 290 pages
...naturaleza humana... como un fin en sí mismo, jamás meramente como un medio""**, era claro y con1 "Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau/ Mock on, mock...against the wind,/ And the wind blows it back again" The Poems of William Blake, ed. WH Stevenson (London-New York, Longman Nprton, 1971), p. 481. 2 *Shakcspeare,... | |
 | John Pemble - 2005 - 271 pages
...their shame, have honoured before their elder and better worthies'. William Blake derided his mockery: Mock on, mock on - Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock...against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. 2 John Morley, writing in 1872, was appalled by the 'rank vocabulary of malice and hate' that the British... | |
 | Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric S. Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt - 2004 - 538 pages
...Edit Options Buffers Tools Help - pork on Mork on Voltaice Houesesu Hork on Mork on tio all in wain You throw the sand against the wind And the wind blows it back again. bloke Ail LI TEE PEHIOO It was the best of times, it was the woret of times, it was the age of wiedom,... | |
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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,... 
