William Blake: A Critical EssayJ. C. Hotten, 1868 - 304 Seiten |
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... bread and meat as Blake had in the substance underlying appearance which he christened god or spectre , devil or angel , as the fit took him ; or rather as he saw it from one or the other side . His faith was 4 WILLIAM BLAKE .
... bread and meat as Blake had in the substance underlying appearance which he christened god or spectre , devil or angel , as the fit took him ; or rather as he saw it from one or the other side . His faith was 4 WILLIAM BLAKE .
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... angel , servant of the cruelty of God , who drives into exile and debars from paradise the fallen spiritual man upon earth . Round the woman ( a double type perhaps at once of the female nature and the " rational truth or law of good ...
... angel , servant of the cruelty of God , who drives into exile and debars from paradise the fallen spiritual man upon earth . Round the woman ( a double type perhaps at once of the female nature and the " rational truth or law of good ...
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... angel " ) of his hero , however far he may be from thinking it worth acceptance . And this , one must admit , the writers on Blake have upon the whole failed of doing . Consequently their critical remarks on such specimens of Blake's ...
... angel " ) of his hero , however far he may be from thinking it worth acceptance . And this , one must admit , the writers on Blake have upon the whole failed of doing . Consequently their critical remarks on such specimens of Blake's ...
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... angel . This verse is of course to be read as one made up of rough but regular anapests ; the heavier accents falling consequently upon every third syllable-- that is , upon the words if , not , and him . The next line is almost as ...
... angel . This verse is of course to be read as one made up of rough but regular anapests ; the heavier accents falling consequently upon every third syllable-- that is , upon the words if , not , and him . The next line is almost as ...
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... angel she was ; but the few things we do know of her , no form of words can fitly express . To praise such people is merely to waste words in saying that divine things are praiseworthy . No doubt , if we knew how to praise them , they ...
... angel she was ; but the few things we do know of her , no form of words can fitly express . To praise such people is merely to waste words in saying that divine things are praiseworthy . No doubt , if we knew how to praise them , they ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 208 - If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. Improvement makes strait roads ; but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
Seite 266 - I will go down to the sepulchre and see if morning breaks. I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death Lest the Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate And I be seized and given into the hands of my own selfhood.
Seite 215 - But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Seite 210 - Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
Seite 118 - The starry pole, And fallen, fallen light renew ! 'O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn, And the morn Rises from the slumberous mass. 'Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away. The starry floor, The wat'ry shore, Is giv'n thee till the break of day.
Seite 233 - The lustful joy. shall forget to generate. & create an amorous image In the shadows of his curtains and in the folds of his silent pillow. Are not these the places of religion? the rewards of continence? The self enjoyings of self denial? Why dost thou seek religion? Is it because acts are not lovely, that thou seekest solitude, Where the horrible darkness is impressed with reflections of desire.
Seite 222 - The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men, each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best: those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.