| 1865 - 808 pages
...labour or study. I mention this to show you what I think the grand reason of my being brought down here. I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any...secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it the grandest poem that this world contains. But of this work I take care to say little to Mr H., since... | |
| 1865 - 802 pages
...study. I mention this to show you what I think the grand reason of my being brought down here. . . " I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any...secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it the grandest poem that this world contains. But of this" work I take care to say little to Mr H., since... | |
| 1865 - 816 pages
...study. I mention this to show you what I think the grand reason of my being brought down here. ... "I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any...secretary; the authors are in eternity. I consider it the grandest poem that this world contains. But of this work I take care to say little to Mr. H., since... | |
| 1868 - 904 pages
...well defy all commentary. To strive to bring order out of their primordial chaos is to deetroy them. " Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding," is the author's definition of the most sublime poetry, and if lacking in scientific exactness, it is sufficiently... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 406 pages
...which is now perfectly completed into a great poem. I may praise it since I dare not attempt to be other than the secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider .it the grandest poem this world contains." Whether this was the Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant... | |
| John Stoughton - 1884 - 408 pages
...which is now perfectly completed into a great poem. I may praise it, since I dare not attempt to be other than the secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it the grandest poem this world contains." " There is no tangible medium of communication mentioned in... | |
| William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...and fashioning brain. Blake considered it " the grandest poem that this world contains ; " adding, " I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any...than the secretary — the authors are in eternity." In an earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - 312 pages
...Jerusalem, and declared it was the grandest poem that this world contains. " I may praise it," he added, " since I dare not pretend to be any other than the secretary — the authors are in eternity." Within the next year or two he made a series of designs, in water-colors, for Blair's Grave, a gloomy... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 416 pages
...Blake considered it " the grandest poem that this world contains;" adding, " I may praise it, ?ince I dare not pretend to be any other than the secretary — the authors are in eternity." In au earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,... | |
| Frank Stephen Granger - 1900 - 372 pages
...personages seemed to communicate to him the matter of his great poem. " I may praise it," he says, " since I dare not pretend to be any other than the secretary ; the authors are in Eternity. This poem shall by Divine assistance be progressively printed and ornamented with prints and given... | |
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