William Blake, His Philosophy and SymbolsPeter Smith, 1958 - 487 pages |
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Page 58
... hand outstretch'd , from his shoulder down the bone , Runs aching cold into the sceptre , too heavy for mortal grasp no more To be swayed by visible hand , nor in cruelty bruise the mild flourishing mountains . So it seems clear that ...
... hand outstretch'd , from his shoulder down the bone , Runs aching cold into the sceptre , too heavy for mortal grasp no more To be swayed by visible hand , nor in cruelty bruise the mild flourishing mountains . So it seems clear that ...
Page 225
... hand is the place of honour . Therefore in all Last Judgments we see the blessed ascending on the right hand of the Lord , and the damned falling upon his left . Blake accepted this , interpreting the right of the characters ( the stage ...
... hand is the place of honour . Therefore in all Last Judgments we see the blessed ascending on the right hand of the Lord , and the damned falling upon his left . Blake accepted this , interpreting the right of the characters ( the stage ...
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... hand or eye ' — that is , what mechanistic force of nature , or what glance of divine vision - dared this creation ? The answer is concealed in the poem . I have already explained the meaning of stars to Blake -that they represented an ...
... hand or eye ' — that is , what mechanistic force of nature , or what glance of divine vision - dared this creation ? The answer is concealed in the poem . I have already explained the meaning of stars to Blake -that they represented an ...
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Ahania Angel appears become Beulah Bible Blake body Book Book of Los Book of Urizen Bromion Chapter clouds Commentary copy Creation Daughters of Albion death descends Divine doctrine earth Emanation engraved Enion Enitharmon error Eternity evil Experience eyes Fall false Felpham Female fire flames flesh Four Zoas Gates Hayley Heaven and Hell human illustrations Imagination Inspiration Jakob Böhme Jerusalem Jesus Last Judgment Line Luvah Marriage of Heaven material Milton Moon mystical Nature never Night nude Oothoon Palamabron Paradise passage Passion philosophy Plate poem Poet Poetic poetry Prophetic Rahab Reason religion repeated represents Revolution Rintrah Satan seems Selfhood sense serpent Shadow sleep Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence sons soul Space Spectre spirit stanza stars Swedenborg symbol Tharmas Thel Theotormon things thou thought Tiriel Tree truth Urizen Urthona Vala verse vision William Blake woman wrath wrote