| 1865 - 808 pages
...felt as an unappreciated artist, and the war he was prepared to wage against his successful rivals, shared his mind with these religious feelings. This...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long life, all produced... | |
| 1864 - 1164 pages
...the persons and machinery entirely new to the inhabitants of earth. (Some of the persons excepted) / have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve,...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long life, all produced... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...cxcepted). I have written this Poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes (* The Jerusalem.) twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation,...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered nonexistent, and an immense Poem exists which seems to he the labour of a long life, all produced without... | |
| 1865 - 816 pages
...' Iliad ' or Milton's ' Paradise Lost ;' the persons and machinery entirely new to the inhahitants of earth. I have written this poem from immediate...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent, and an immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long life, all produced... | |
| 1865 - 814 pages
...or Milton's 'Paradise Lost;' the persons and machinery entirely new to the inhabitants of earth. 1 have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve...or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation, 'ami even against my will. The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered non-existent, and an... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 526 pages
...during the time of the lonely sea-shore life, to have been kindled into over-mastering intensity. ' I have written this poem from immediate dicta'tion,...'without premeditation, and even against my will; thus an 'immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long 'life, all produced without labour... | |
| Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 550 pages
...been kindled into over-mastering intensity. ' I have written this poem from immediate dicta' tion, twelve, or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time...' without premeditation, and even against my will ; thus an ' immense poem exists which seems to be the labour of a long ' life, all produced without... | |
| William Blake - 1890 - 382 pages
...secretary — the authors are in eternity." In an earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." The Jerusalem and the Milton are the last of the " Prophetic Books," properly to be so called, that ever... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 324 pages
...spiritual presences. ' I have written this poem from immediate dictation,' he wrote, of 'Jerusalem,' 'twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time...The time it has taken in writing was thus rendered nonexistent, and an immense poem exists which seems the labour of a long life, all produced without... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 416 pages
...secretary — the authors are in eternity." In au earlier letter (25th April 1803) he had said : " I have written this poem from immediate dictation,...without premeditation, and even against my will." The Jerusalem and the Milton are the laat of the " Prophetic Books," properly to be so called, that ever... | |
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