 PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.  Blake and the City - Page 59by Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 235 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...Blasts the new-born infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody...fear brings Peace, Till the selfish loves increase ; Then Cruelty knits a snare, And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
 | William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...me free : Then what have I to do with thee ? " IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY." THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody...fear brings peace, Till the selfish loves increase ; Then cruelty knits a snare And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
 | William Blake - 1874 - 194 pages
...set me free : Then what have I to do with thee ? IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody...fear brings peace, Till the selfish loves increase ; Then cruelty knits a snare And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
 | Francis Herbert Bradley - Ethics - 1876 - 338 pages
...theft. 'Succour the poor' both negates and presupposes (hence posits) poverty : as Blake comically says, Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. If you are to love your enemies, you must never be without them ; and yet you try to get rid of them.... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1879 - 318 pages
...looks than even the other shabby houses on this side of the street." CHAPTER VII. A TURNING-POINT. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor ; And mercy no more would be If all wore as happy as we. THE unusual sound of carriage-wheels, and the echoawakening footman's... | |
 | William Blake, Richard Herne Shepherd - 1887 - 224 pages
...set me free : Then what have I to do with thee ? IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody...fear brings peace, Till the selfish loves increase ; Then cruelty knits a snare And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 324 pages
...• How the youthful harlot's curse { Blasts the new-born infant's tear, V THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. Pjnry would be no more If we did not make somebody poor,...fear brings) Peace, Till the selfish loves increase) Then Cruelty knits"* snare, And spreads. his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 416 pages
...Blasts the new-born infant's tear, And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. ITY would be no more If we did not make somebody poor,...were as happy as we. And mutual fear brings Peace, /_Ti]l the selfish loves increase ; Then Cruelty knits a snars And spreads his baits withXeare. He... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1895 - 632 pages
...looks than even the other shabby houses on this side of the street." CHAPTER VII. A TOKNING-POINT. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor ; jChd mercy no more would be If all were as happy aa we. THE unusual sound of carriage-wheels, and... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...a woman old; She nails him down upon the rock, And all is done as I have told. THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody...fear brings Peace, Till the selfish loves increase; Then Cruelty knits a snare, And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears, And waters... | |
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