William Blake: A Critical EssayJohn Camden Hotten, 1868 - 304 páginas |
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... religious reflection , of much less original thinkers than Blake . One other thing we may observe of these " Sketches ; " that they contain , though only in the pieces rejected from our present collection , sad indications of the ...
... religious reflection , of much less original thinkers than Blake . One other thing we may observe of these " Sketches ; " that they contain , though only in the pieces rejected from our present collection , sad indications of the ...
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... religion , taken in a large and subtle sense of the words , were alike credible and adorable to him ; and in nothing else could he find matter for belief or worship . His forehead , largest ( as he said ) just over the eyes , shows an ...
... religion , taken in a large and subtle sense of the words , were alike credible and adorable to him ; and in nothing else could he find matter for belief or worship . His forehead , largest ( as he said ) just over the eyes , shows an ...
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... religious restraint and the severities of artificial holiness , an old man , spectacled and strait - mouthed , clips with his shears the plumes of a winged boy , who writhes vainly in a passionate attempt at self - release , 24 WILLIAM ...
... religious restraint and the severities of artificial holiness , an old man , spectacled and strait - mouthed , clips with his shears the plumes of a winged boy , who writhes vainly in a passionate attempt at self - release , 24 WILLIAM ...
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... religion relax . In the evening he travels towards the grave ; a figure stepping out swiftly and steadily , staff in hand , over rough country ground and beside low thick bushes and underwood , dressed as a man of Blake's day ; a touch ...
... religion relax . In the evening he travels towards the grave ; a figure stepping out swiftly and steadily , staff in hand , over rough country ground and beside low thick bushes and underwood , dressed as a man of Blake's day ; a touch ...
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... religious systems less mystic than his own ; being indeed , together with " Deism , " the perpetual butt of his prophetic slings and arrows . All this , however , we must leave now for time to enlighten in due course as it best may ...
... religious systems less mystic than his own ; being indeed , together with " Deism , " the perpetual butt of his prophetic slings and arrows . All this , however , we must leave now for time to enlighten in due course as it best may ...
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admirable Ahania Albion allegory Angel artist beauty Blake blind body Book of Ahania Book of Urizen Caiaphas called Christ cloud colour creed Cromek dæmon death delight designs desire devil divine earth eternal evil eyes faith fancy father fear Felpham fierce fiery fire flame flesh flower fruit Fuzon give given hand Hayley heaven hell holy human imagination infinite innocence Jehovah Jerusalem labour less light limbs live look lyrical matter mind moral mystic myth nature never night noble once Oothoon Palamabron Pantheist passion perfect pity pleasure poem poet praise prophecy prophet prophetic books pure qualities reason religion Rintrah Satan seems sense shadow sight singular sleep soft song Song of Los Songs of Innocence sorrow soul spirit strange subtle sweet symbolic tender thee Theism Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Urizen verse vision WILLIAM BLAKE wind words worship worth
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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.