 | 1863 - 594 pages
...warnings in a case so common, and so sure to recur, is sheer waste of time and breath : — "'Tiaall in vain; You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again." And yet, Heavyside, what would be the prospects of this fevered world were all to accept your counsel and... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - Temptation - 1864 - 424 pages
...smile his work to see ? Did He who made the lamb make thee?' OEtUiam Blafcc, (Songs of Experience.) ' MOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau, Mock on, mock...wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every grain becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine ; Blown back, they blind the mocking eye, But still... | |
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 324 pages
...poison out On the bread and on the wine. So I turned into a sty, And laid me down among the swine. SCOFFERS. 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. And every stone becomes a gem, Reflected in... | |
 | William Blake - Poetry, Modern - 1905 - 452 pages
...one] And none EY. xli Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; 1 Mock on, Mock on ; 'tis all in vain 1 You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a Gem 5 Reflected in the beams divine ; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 302 pages
...characteristic and perfect of Blake's epigrams: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; Mock on, Mock on ; 't is all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind,...mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. 1 The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the manuscript, engraved and letterpress... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 326 pages
...characteristic and perfect of Blake's epigrams: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; Mock on, Mock on ; 't is all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind,...mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. 1 The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the manuscript, engraved and letterpress... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1906 - 304 pages
...epigrams: Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; Mock on, Mock on ; 't is all in vain! You throw the saud against the wind, And the wind blows it back again....mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. 1 The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the manuscript, engraved and letterpress... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pages
...the eternal verity of faith, the ephemeral nature of doubt, and summed all up in this fine epigram : Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock...divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye. But still m Israel's path they shine. A most wonderful cockney, this William Blake ! He was born in London in... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...: ' This the Wine, and this the Bread.' W. Blake 266. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Ron sse, TV/TOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; -'•-'• Mock on,...against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. 478 And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...Lamb, God bless thee ! Little Lamb, God bless thee ! W. BLAKE. 54. MOCK ON, MOCK ON, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU MOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau ; Mock on, mock...mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. W. BLAKE. 55. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY MY mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O my... | |
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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,... 
