 | William Blake - 1926 - 398 pages
...meaning of ' Prophet ' almost to nothing, but Blake's purpose is to extend without weakening it. ' Every honest man is a prophet ; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus : If you go on, the result is so. He never says, such a thing will happen, let... | |
 | Mona Wilson - Artists - 1927 - 476 pages
...describing all prophets as " lying rascals." Blake's comment is: Prophets, in the modern sense of the word, have never existed. Jonah was no prophet in the modern...is a Prophet; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus: If you go on So, the result is So. He never says, such a thing shall happen... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 pages
...dare not venture to predict the fate of your book, [i ] [i] Prophets, in the modern sense of the word, have never existed. Jonah was no prophet in the modern...a Prophet ; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus : If you go on So, the result is So. He never says, such a thing shall happen... | |
 | United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse - 1973 - 804 pages
...poet William Blake, whose manner of writing is usually called prophetic, but who said bluntly in 1798, "Every honest man is a Prophet; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus: If you go on So, the result is So. He never says, such a thing shall happen... | |
 | David V. Erdman - Art - 1991 - 628 pages
...silence or in labyrinthine allegories that more conceal than reveal (as Blake has done), or to leave 20 "Every honest man is a Prophet; he utters his opinion...matters. Thus: If you go on So, the result is So." Marg. to Watson, 14: E6O77K392. 88 7.22:9: EiG5/K645; cf. F.2.i.4: 22-28: E2987^65:41-47. 8'FZi4:8,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 260 pages
...foretell the future. "Prophets, in the modern sense of the word, have never existed," Blake declares. "Jonah was no prophet in the modern sense, for his prophecy of Nineveh failed. ... A prophet is a Seer, not an Arbitrary Dictator. It is man's fault if God is not able to do him... | |
 | David R. Catchpole, David G. Horrell, C. Christopher Mark Tuckett - Religion - 2000 - 446 pages
...he puts it succinctly in a marginal note he wrote in 1798: Prophets in the modern sense of the word have never existed. Jonah was no prophet, in the modern...is a Prophet; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus: If you go on So, the result is So. He never says, such a thing shall happen... | |
 | Tony Trigilio - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 222 pages
...an institutionally sanctified, apostolic authority. As Blake asserts in his annotations to Watson: "Every honest man is a Prophet, he utters his opinion both of public and private matters" (Complete Poetry and Prose, 617). Yet for Blake — and for HD and Ginsberg... | |
 | Andreas Stuhlmann - Radio audiences - 2001 - 354 pages
...English poet and painter, William Blake, who once remarked: "Prophets in the modern sense of the word have never existed. Jonah was no prophet in the modern...is a Prophet; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters, thus — If you go on So, the result is So. He never says such a thing will happen... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
..."Defence of Poetry," at the "modern sense" of the word "prophet": Prophets in the modern sense of the word have never existed Jonah was no prophet in the modern...is a Prophet he utters his opinion both of private & public matters/Thus/If you go on So/the result is So/He never says such a thing shall happen let... | |
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Prophets, in the modern sense of the word, have never existed. Jonah was no prophet in the modern sense, for his prophecy of Nineveh failed. Every honest man is a Prophet ; he utters his opinion both of private & public matters. Thus: If you go on So,... 
