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... Americans . In The French Revolution Blake endeavoured to describe history as seen by the visionary ; in America he tried to describe eternity as it is symbolized by history . This book marks a new and final step in Blake's career as a ...
... Americans . In The French Revolution Blake endeavoured to describe history as seen by the visionary ; in America he tried to describe eternity as it is symbolized by history . This book marks a new and final step in Blake's career as a ...
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... America- Water ; Asia - Air ; and Africa - Fire ) are entirely Blake's , and his book yields something like a meaning ( though perhaps not Maier's ) to any one who is versed in Blake's symbols . But this does not imply that Blake had ...
... America- Water ; Asia - Air ; and Africa - Fire ) are entirely Blake's , and his book yields something like a meaning ( though perhaps not Maier's ) to any one who is versed in Blake's symbols . But this does not imply that Blake had ...
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... America . Swedenborg had taught him that the ' historical ' books in the Old Testament were ' sublime allegories ' only ; so he extended Swedenborg's teaching by practising on the theory that history itself was nothing more than symbol ...
... America . Swedenborg had taught him that the ' historical ' books in the Old Testament were ' sublime allegories ' only ; so he extended Swedenborg's teaching by practising on the theory that history itself was nothing more than symbol ...
Contents
THE INEFFABLE SECRET | 1 |
THE TEMPORAL BLAKE III | 13 |
IMPERISHABLE SKETCHES | 25 |
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