...voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. I cared not for consequences, but wrote." " Then I asked, ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so,...anything.' ' ' Then Ezekiel said, ' The philosophy of tho East taught tho first principles of human perception. Some nations held one principle for the origin...

...the man whose mind is unbalanced will ask with unflinching eye. He is talking familiarly to Isaiah. ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so ? ' What an entangling preliminary question before he ventures to slip the leash of some ' subjective...

...Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It may be read as supplementary to the axiom "Art is Christianity." " Then Ezekiel said : ' The philosophy of the East taught...first principles of human perception. Some nations hold one principle for the origin, and some another. We of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as...

...is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. Then I asked : does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so ? He replied. All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains : but many are not capable of a firm...

...Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It may be read as supplementary to the axiom "Art is Christianity." " Then Ezekiel said : ' The philosophy of the East taught...first principles of human perception. Some nations hold one principle for the origin, and some another. We of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as...

...the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.' Then I asked : ' Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' 17* BLAKE'S FOEMS, imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains ; but many are not capable of...

...Ezeklel dined with him he asked: "Doea a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so"? and Isaiah replied: "All poets believe that it does, and in ages...are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything." Certainly most of the Erieini are capable of a firm persuasion of something, and probably, if Blake...

...position and of taste would like to have completed the quartette, icto. rpke poet.nogt tejjs ug tnat jie asked, " Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it so ? " and that the prophet -guest answered, "All. poets believe that it does" — a position from which...

...driven by Phaethon. In the same " Memorable Fancy" from which I have already quoted, Blake continues, " Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He (Isaiah) replied, All poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion moved...

...spirit with spiritual realities ' ? 'Then I asked,' he says, in the ' Marriage of Heaven and Hell,' ' does a firm persuasion that a thing is so make it...so? He replied : " All poets believe that it does.'! ! Of the definite reality of Blake's visions there can be no question; no question that, as he once...