William Blake: A Critical EssayJohn Camden Hotten, 1868 - 304 páginas |
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... appears , from good MS . authority , to have been the 20th of November ( 1757 ) , not the 28th ; that he was the second of five children , not four ; James , the hosier in Broad Street , being his junior , not , as the biography states ...
... appears , from good MS . authority , to have been the 20th of November ( 1757 ) , not the 28th ; that he was the second of five children , not four ; James , the hosier in Broad Street , being his junior , not , as the biography states ...
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... appears to belong to 1777 , or thereabouts . Here , at a time when the very notion of poetry , as we now understand it , and as it was understood in older times , had totally died and decayed out of the minds of men ; when we not only ...
... appears to belong to 1777 , or thereabouts . Here , at a time when the very notion of poetry , as we now understand it , and as it was understood in older times , had totally died and decayed out of the minds of men ; when we not only ...
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... appear to have run through various scales of very tolerable harmony . Blake , in the intervals of incessant engraving and occasional designing , was led by his good Hayley into the greenest pastures of literature and beside the stillest ...
... appear to have run through various scales of very tolerable harmony . Blake , in the intervals of incessant engraving and occasional designing , was led by his good Hayley into the greenest pastures of literature and beside the stillest ...
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... appear to confirm the suggestion that , as high latitudes and climates of rarefied air affect the physical structure of inhabitants or travellers , so in this case did the sudden country life , the taste and savour of the sea , touch ...
... appear to confirm the suggestion that , as high latitudes and climates of rarefied air affect the physical structure of inhabitants or travellers , so in this case did the sudden country life , the taste and savour of the sea , touch ...
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... appear in public at the trial , living or dying , " and did , with or without leave of doctors , appear and speak up for the accused . Blake's honourable acquittal does not make it less disgraceful that the charge should at all have ...
... appear in public at the trial , living or dying , " and did , with or without leave of doctors , appear and speak up for the accused . Blake's honourable acquittal does not make it less disgraceful that the charge should at all have ...
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Página 259 - And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
Página 215 - If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro
Página 210 - Errors. 1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul. 2. That Energy, calld Evil, is alone from the Body. & that Reason, calld Good, is alone from the Soul. 3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
Página 216 - The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity ; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power to resist energy, according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Página 213 - And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects...
Página 120 - Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?
Página 121 - Catterpiller and Fly Feed on the Mystery; And it bears the fruit of Deceit, Ruddy and sweet to eat, And the Raven his nest has made In its thickest shade. The Gods of the earth and sea Sought thro' Nature to find this Tree; But their search was all in vain: There grows one in the Human Brain.
Página 290 - Is it meat and drink? Is not the Body more than raiment? What is Mortality but the things relating to the Body, which dies? What is Immortality but the things relating to the Spirit, which lives eternally? What is the Joy of Heaven but improvement in the things of the Spirit?
Página 233 - Can that be Love, that drinks another as a sponge drinks water? That clouds with jealousy his nights, with weepings all the day: To spin a web of age around him. grey and hoary dark! Till his eyes sicken at the fruit that hangs before his sight. Such is self-love that envies all! a creeping skeleton With lamplike eyes watching around the frozen marriage bed.
Página 126 - They are both gone up to the church to pray. "Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil'd among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe. "And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King, Who make up a heaven of our misery.