 What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 211865Full view - About this book
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - Art - 1895 - 290 pages
...be questioned, ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea ? ' Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." Blake's conception of the sun may be compared with Dante's vision of the angels... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 pages
...myself that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance, and not action. ... I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." "The angel who presided at my birth Said : Little creature, formed of joy and... | |
 | John Alden, Arthur Russell, Russell Hillard Loines - 1896 - 126 pages
...for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance, not help. ... I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." In considering the work of Blake, in either poetry or design, it must be remembered... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 502 pages
...myself that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance, and not action. ... I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." "The angel who presided at my birth Said : Little creature, formed of joy and... | |
 | Frank Stephen Granger - Christianity - 1900 - 372 pages
...questioned, ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea ? ' ' Oh, no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it and not with it.' " 2 Of course there are differences between the visions and the voices which come... | |
 | S. J. C. - Angels - 1901 - 478 pages
...will be questioned, 'when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?' Oh ! no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it. WILLIAM BLAKE. O MIGHT there come as sweet a Dawn After my night of death ! —... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - London (England) - 1903 - 542 pages
...questioned" (of me) " when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea ? Oh ! no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." And thus it was with Miss Rossetti. She, the patient, noble, suffering woman,—suffering,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 pages
...that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it would be a hindrance, and not action. I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it."' It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 280 pages
...that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it would be a hindrance, and not action. I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it." Tis a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1903 - 450 pages
...English poet-artist Blake : "I do not behold the outward creation. For me it is hindrance not action. I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would...question a window concerning a sight. I look through it — not with it. ' What,' it will be questioned, ' when the sun rises do you not see a round disk... | |
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