The Real Blake: A Portrait BiographyChatto & Windus, 1907 - 443 Seiten Philosopher. Luminary. Artist. William Blake was one of the best creative minds England ever produced. Discover his life with this fascinating biography. |
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... light and is published in full . Not having my old notes by me here , I now look through Mr. Russell's volume to see if any essential matter from Tatham's Life has passed unnoticed . I find pleasant personal descriptions of Blake's good ...
... light and is published in full . Not having my old notes by me here , I now look through Mr. Russell's volume to see if any essential matter from Tatham's Life has passed unnoticed . I find pleasant personal descriptions of Blake's good ...
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... light photograph was not taken at the very first moment of exposure . While the selfish and unprovident persons for whom the tomb was opened were gloating over the sight , the nose of the King's face fell in , and the mask became a ...
... light photograph was not taken at the very first moment of exposure . While the selfish and unprovident persons for whom the tomb was opened were gloating over the sight , the nose of the King's face fell in , and the mask became a ...
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... light his fire . Newspapers were rarer and smaller then than now , and fires must be lit with something . This publication should have been , and with any other man would have been , the cause of real gratitude and lasting friendship ...
... light his fire . Newspapers were rarer and smaller then than now , and fires must be lit with something . This publication should have been , and with any other man would have been , the cause of real gratitude and lasting friendship ...
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... light that seems to belong to the period of the Poetical Sketches , has a value of a special kind . It enables us to see that moods underlie all Blake's mythic names , and that real mental relationships are intended by his mythic ...
... light that seems to belong to the period of the Poetical Sketches , has a value of a special kind . It enables us to see that moods underlie all Blake's mythic names , and that real mental relationships are intended by his mythic ...
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... light or dark , are patchy . Sustained will expressed with gradated fervour was unknown to him . There would have been , we see , no plot in his Edward III or his Island in the Moon , as there was none in the lighting of his paintings ...
... light or dark , are patchy . Sustained will expressed with gradated fervour was unknown to him . There would have been , we see , no plot in his Edward III or his Island in the Moon , as there was none in the lighting of his paintings ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albion angels appear artist Basire beauty Book of Urizen Butts called character Chaucer Christ colours copy Correggio Crabb Robinson Cromek death designs Divine drawing enemy engraving eternal Felpham Flaxman fool genius Gilchrist give Hayley Hayley's Hell human idea imagination inspiration Jerusalem John Linnell Joseph of Arimathea kind knew labour Last Judgment letter Linnell live look Luvah Mathews means mental Michael Angelo Milton mind nature never Night notes painter painting Palamabron passage picture plates poem Poetical Sketches poetry present writer printed Quaritch edition Rahab remember Reynolds Rubens Samuel Palmer Satan says seems seen Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence South Molton spiritual Stothard style Swedenborg Swedenborgian symbol tell Thel things thought tion Tiriel Titian told truth underlined by Blake understand Urizen Vala verse vision wife William Blake words writing written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 413 - I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Seite 282 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air;) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre: 'Hark, how each giant oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath!
Seite 80 - Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise, Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.
Seite 379 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 221 - I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any other than the Secretary; the Authors are in Eternity.
Seite 373 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 23 - This is one of the Gothic artists who built the Cathedrals in what we call the Dark Ages, wandering about in sheepskins and goatskins ; of whom the world was not worthy. Such were the Christians in all ages.
Seite 346 - If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Seite 158 - Does the Eagle know what is in the pit ; Or wilt thou go ask the Mole ? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl...
Seite 194 - Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while it is altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime Poetry.