 | Literature - 1906 - 730 pages
...sun-ray shed, Nourished the wilding grain as well j As it the full field fed ! GOOD THINGS WELL SAID 1. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. — William Blake. 2. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — The same. 3. A man never... | |
 | Century Guild of Artists (London, England) - Art - 1887 - 218 pages
...Improvement are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not nature is barren. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believ'd. Enough ! or Too much. The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses,... | |
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 324 pages
...genius. ' Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ' Where man is not, natnre is barren. ' • Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' Enough I or too much. The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses, calling them... | |
 | William Blake - 1905 - 260 pages
...expressed himself clearly and fully enough to enable us to share in his vision. 'Truth,' he says himself, ' can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.' Are his own utterances intelligible ? If he was a charlatan, or the dupe of his own excitable nerves,... | |
 | William Blake - 1906 - 596 pages
...Improvement are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren. Truth can never...understood, ! and not be believed. Enough ! or Too much. The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning... | |
 | Arlo Bates - Literature - 1906 - 270 pages
...good gained, but most that is now attempted is more surely secured. William Blake declares that the truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. In the same way it may be said that if children can be trained to recognize the characteristics of... | |
 | Renée M. Deacon - 1910 - 116 pages
...fashTbn that lt""can*"no~ longer be "hedged" or evaded in anyway. " The Truth," says William Blake, . " can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed." It is impossible to read the Unpleasant Plays and to remain unmoved by an urgent sense of social sin.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1912 - 870 pages
...the truth that was always before Tolstoy, or rather I don't think she believes it to be a truth — ' Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' I believe this truth is at times before us all — it is an ever-straining within after unity and harmony,... | |
 | William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...improvement are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd. Enough ! or Too much. The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses,... | |
 | 1921 - 600 pages
...people are now fed — I say that the world would be transformed." — UPTON SINCLAIR, The Brat* Check. "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed." — WILLIAM BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell. "Men everywhere are beginning to see that if Christianity is to... | |
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd... 
