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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... knew to have only an imaginative existence , lest the complete splitting up of her own personality into several should seem too like the reception of " messages " from " spirits , " as it does to most " mediums , " until it deceived ...
... knew to have only an imaginative existence , lest the complete splitting up of her own personality into several should seem too like the reception of " messages " from " spirits , " as it does to most " mediums , " until it deceived ...
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... knew of , and kept him well fed and " comfortable , " though not " portly " ; also that in his later years he always dressed neatly in black ( Gilchrist says , in knee - breeches ) , and wore his hair falling down on his shoulders ...
... knew of , and kept him well fed and " comfortable , " though not " portly " ; also that in his later years he always dressed neatly in black ( Gilchrist says , in knee - breeches ) , and wore his hair falling down on his shoulders ...
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... knew very intimately by his intimacy with Basire , and I knew him to be one of the most ignorant fellows I ever knew . Woollett I knew did not know how to grind his graver : I know this . He has often proved his ignorance before me at ...
... knew very intimately by his intimacy with Basire , and I knew him to be one of the most ignorant fellows I ever knew . Woollett I knew did not know how to grind his graver : I know this . He has often proved his ignorance before me at ...
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... knew how to grind his tools better than Woollett , who became a more popular engraver . After the first two years , however , his position with his master changed . Two new pupils came . They seem to have been idle apprentices . Basire ...
... knew how to grind his tools better than Woollett , who became a more popular engraver . After the first two years , however , his position with his master changed . Two new pupils came . They seem to have been idle apprentices . Basire ...
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... knew nothing about it , and in their company he ceased to know more . He became their equal . In the Poetical Sketches that were written at about this time , the drama of Edward III is not composed by a plebeian . The author is as much ...
... knew nothing about it , and in their company he ceased to know more . He became their equal . In the Poetical Sketches that were written at about this time , the drama of Edward III is not composed by a plebeian . The author is as much ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albion angels appear artist Basire beauty Book of Urizen called character Chaucer Christ colours copy Correggio Crabb Robinson Cromek death Divine drawing engraving eternal existence Felpham figure Flaxman fool genius Gilchrist give Hayley Hayley's Hell human idea imagination inspiration Jerusalem John Linnell Joseph of Arimathea kind knew labour Last Judgment later letter Linnell living 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 probably Quaritch edition remember Reynolds Samuel Palmer Satan says seems seen Songs of Innocence South Molton spiritual Stothard style Swedenborg Swedenborgian symbol tell Tharmas Thel things thought tion Tiriel Titian told truth underlined by Blake understand Urizen Urthona Vala Venetian verse vision wife William Blake words writing written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 333 - 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 339 - 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 252 - 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 152 - Thel's Motto 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 21 - 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 193 - I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any other than the Secretary; the Authors are in Eternity.
Seite 58 - Thames' waters flow. O what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town ! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the...
Seite 289 - What", it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a guinea?" O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty".
Seite 149 - Tho' born on the cheating banks of Thames, Tho' his waters bathed my infant limbs, The Ohio shall wash his stains from me: I was born a slave, but I go to be free!
Seite 174 - Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while it is altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime Poetry.