William Blake: A Critical EssayJohn Camden Hotten, 1868 - 304 páginas |
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... seem the best made for it ; it has something of fire in its compo- sition , and something of music . If there is a want of balance , there is abundance of melody in the features ; melody rather than harmony ; for the mould of some is ...
... seem the best made for it ; it has something of fire in its compo- sition , and something of music . If there is a want of balance , there is abundance of melody in the features ; melody rather than harmony ; for the mould of some is ...
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... seems in comparative youth ; of him Mr. Gilchrist evidently had not heard . In some verses of the Felpham period ( written in 1801 , printed in vol . ii . p . 189 of the " Life and Selections " ) Blake makes mention , hitherto ...
... seems in comparative youth ; of him Mr. Gilchrist evidently had not heard . In some verses of the Felpham period ( written in 1801 , printed in vol . ii . p . 189 of the " Life and Selections " ) Blake makes mention , hitherto ...
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... seem as perfect as well can be : " Thou the golden fruit dost bear , I am clad in flowers fair ; Thy sweet boughs perfume the air , And the turtle buildeth there . There she sits and feeds her young : Sweet I hear her mournful song ...
... seem as perfect as well can be : " Thou the golden fruit dost bear , I am clad in flowers fair ; Thy sweet boughs perfume the air , And the turtle buildeth there . There she sits and feeds her young : Sweet I hear her mournful song ...
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... seems to have exercised on Blake . How or why such lank and lamentable counterfeits of the poetical style did ever gain this luckless influence — one , too , which in after years was to do far worse harm than it has done here — it is ...
... seems to have exercised on Blake . How or why such lank and lamentable counterfeits of the poetical style did ever gain this luckless influence — one , too , which in after years was to do far worse harm than it has done here — it is ...
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... seems after a year or two of engaged life . His wife Catherine Boucher deserves remembrance as about the most perfect wife on record . In all things but affection , her husband must have been as hard to live with as the most erratic ...
... seems after a year or two of engaged life . His wife Catherine Boucher deserves remembrance as about the most perfect wife on record . In all things but affection , her husband must have been as hard to live with as the most erratic ...
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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.