Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1880 |
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Page 141
... Imagination , therefore not authors of such sublime conceptions . Those wonderful originals seen in my visions were some of them one hundred feet in height ; some were painted as pictures , and some carved as basso - relievos , and some ...
... Imagination , therefore not authors of such sublime conceptions . Those wonderful originals seen in my visions were some of them one hundred feet in height ; some were painted as pictures , and some carved as basso - relievos , and some ...
Page 153
... imaginative and immortal organs ; the Apostles the same ; the clearer the organ the more distinct the object . A ... imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organised than anything seen by his mortal eye ...
... imaginative and immortal organs ; the Apostles the same ; the clearer the organ the more distinct the object . A ... imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organised than anything seen by his mortal eye ...
Page 157
... Imagination only can furnish us with colouring appropriate , such as is found in the Frescoes of Raphael and Michael Angelo : the disposition of forms always directs colouring in works of true art . As to a modern Man stripped from his ...
... Imagination only can furnish us with colouring appropriate , such as is found in the Frescoes of Raphael and Michael Angelo : the disposition of forms always directs colouring in works of true art . As to a modern Man stripped from his ...
Page 159
... Imaginative power , by means of that infernal machine , called Chiaro Oscuro , in the hands of Venetian and Flemish ... imagination weakened so much , and darkened , that memory of nature and of Pictures of the various Schools possessed ...
... Imaginative power , by means of that infernal machine , called Chiaro Oscuro , in the hands of Venetian and Flemish ... imagination weakened so much , and darkened , that memory of nature and of Pictures of the various Schools possessed ...
Page 168
... imaginations , any more than Pope's metaphysical jargon of rhyming . Unappropriate execution is the most nauseous of all affectation and foppery . He who copies does not execute -he only imitates what is already executed . Execution is ...
... imaginations , any more than Pope's metaphysical jargon of rhyming . Unappropriate execution is the most nauseous of all affectation and foppery . He who copies does not execute -he only imitates what is already executed . Execution is ...
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Abel Act directs March Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Artist babe beauty beneath Blake N3 Fountain bright Butts called character Chaucer child Christ cloud colour Colour-printed Correggio dark Death delight divine dost doth drawing earth echoing green engraved eternal execution eyes father fear female figure flame Fountain Court Strand Giulio Romano golden grave hand head heaven Henry Baillie holy human Human Abstract imagination Indian ink infant invention labour Lamb Last Judgment light Linnell Lyca Michael Angelo morning mortal mother N3 Fountain Court naked never night NUMBER o'er painter painting picture Pity poem Rembrandt represent round Rubens Satan seen serpent shine sleep smile song Songs of Experience sorrow soul Spirit stands sweet tears Tempera thee Thel things thou Titian tree Virgin vision water-colour weep Wife of Bath William Blake woman youth