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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... painter of great spiritu- ality and power , but of visionary extravagance and more than dream - like unreality ; but behind the poet and the painter is the man , and it is only beginning to be known that this man was as well worth ...
... painter of great spiritu- ality and power , but of visionary extravagance and more than dream - like unreality ; but behind the poet and the painter is the man , and it is only beginning to be known that this man was as well worth ...
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... painter . Gilchrist has recorded for us that it was only because indentures to an engraver cost less that he was bound to Basire , after he had refused to be articled to the fashionable and fascinating Ryland , because , as he said ...
... painter . Gilchrist has recorded for us that it was only because indentures to an engraver cost less that he was bound to Basire , after he had refused to be articled to the fashionable and fascinating Ryland , because , as he said ...
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... painter . Art instruction was not to be had for nothing then , and the painter to whom he applied- ( Blake never seems to have told Tatham , or any one else , who it was ) -asked such a heavy sum that the boy refused to have it spent ...
... painter . Art instruction was not to be had for nothing then , and the painter to whom he applied- ( Blake never seems to have told Tatham , or any one else , who it was ) -asked such a heavy sum that the boy refused to have it spent ...
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... painter . " Below all emotional difficulty caused by red - hot egotism that was so disinterested as to seem to its owner to be self- devotion , there was another reason why Blake did not correct the pages of the Poetical Sketches , and ...
... painter . " Below all emotional difficulty caused by red - hot egotism that was so disinterested as to seem to its owner to be self- devotion , there was another reason why Blake did not correct the pages of the Poetical Sketches , and ...
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... painters " getting together " in a picture , —a merit first violently thrust upon the attention of connoisseurs by Rembrandt with his single - spot scheme of illumination . Blake , in furious rebellion against the cheap praise that has ...
... painters " getting together " in a picture , —a merit first violently thrust upon the attention of connoisseurs by Rembrandt with his single - spot scheme of illumination . Blake , in furious rebellion against the cheap praise that has ...
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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.