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... arms thick intertwin'd might shield / From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head " ( IV , 405–6 ) . Satan then wields supernatural power in a driving , elemental attack : “ the Clouds / From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd ...
... arms thick intertwin'd might shield / From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head " ( IV , 405–6 ) . Satan then wields supernatural power in a driving , elemental attack : “ the Clouds / From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd ...
Page 99
... arms " ( PL , IV , 506 ) and the new Eden " rais'd in the waste wilderness . " The massing decay of the fallen world , its ripening death , is a source of energy ; inhabited by Christ instead of Satan , the world can be transformed and ...
... arms " ( PL , IV , 506 ) and the new Eden " rais'd in the waste wilderness . " The massing decay of the fallen world , its ripening death , is a source of energy ; inhabited by Christ instead of Satan , the world can be transformed and ...
Page 143
... arms . " The fourfold imagination takes joy in the double arc of its body from its source . Blake's visionary body suggests an infinity of postures . Albion's outstretched arms ( plate 76 ) are poised not only to accept Christ's agony ...
... arms . " The fourfold imagination takes joy in the double arc of its body from its source . Blake's visionary body suggests an infinity of postures . Albion's outstretched arms ( plate 76 ) are poised not only to accept Christ's agony ...
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