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TO THE PUBLIC October 10, 1793.
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The Labours of the Artist, the Poet, the Musician, have been
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proverbially attended by poverty and obscurity; this was never
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the fault of the Public, but was owing to a neglect of means to
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propagate such works as have wholly absorbed the Man of Genius.
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Even Milton and Shakespeare could not publish their own works.
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This difficulty has been obviated by the Author of the
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following productions now presented to the Public; who has
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invented a method of Printing both Letter-press and Engraving in
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a style more ornamental, uniform, and grand, than any before
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discovered, while it produces works at less than one fourth of
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the expense.
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If a method of Printing which combines the Painter and the
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Poet is a phenomenon worthy of public attention, provided that it
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exceeds in elegance all former methods, the Author is sure of his
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reward.
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Mr. Blake's powers of invention very early engaged the
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attention of many persons of eminence and fortune; by whose means
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he has been regularly enabled to bring before the Public works
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(he is not afraid to say) of equal magnitude and consequence with
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the productions of any age or country: among which are two large
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highly finished engravings (and two more are nearly ready) which
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will commence a Series of subjects from the Bible, and another
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from the History of England.
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The following are the Subjects of the several Works now
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published and on Sale at Mr. Blake's, No. 13, Hercules Buildings,
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Lambeth.
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1. Job, a Historical Engraving. Size 1 ft.7 1/2 in. by 1
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ft. 2 in.: price 12s.
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2. Edward and Elinor, a Historical Engraving. Size 1 ft. 6
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1/2 in. by 1 ft.: price 10s. 6d.
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3. America, a Prophecy, in Illuminated Printing. Folio,
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with 18 designs: price 10s. 6d.
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4. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, in Illuminated
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Printing. Folio, with 8 designs, price 7s. 6d.
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5. The Book of Thel, a Poem in Illuminated Printing.
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Quarto, with 6 designs, price 3s.
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6. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in Illuminated
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Printing. Quarto, with 14 designs, price 7s.
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6d.
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7. Songs of Innocence, in Illuminated Printing. Octavo,
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with 25 designs, price 5s.
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8. Songs of Experience, in Illuminated Printing. Octavo,
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with 25 designs, price 5s.
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9. The History of England, a small book of Engravings.
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Price 3s.
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10. The Gates of Paradise, a small book of Engravings.
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Price 3s.
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The Illuminated Books are Printed in Colours, and on the
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most beautiful wove paper that
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could be procured,
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No Subscriptions for the numerous great works now in hand
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are asked, for none are wanted; but the Author will produce his
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works, and offer them to sale at a fair price.
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[On the drawings of Thomas Williams Malkin]
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[Paragraph in A Father's Memoirs of his Child,
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by Benjamin Heath Malkin. London, 1806, pp 33-34]
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They are all firm, determinate outline, or identical form.
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Had the hand which executed these little ideas been that of a
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plagiary, who works only from the memory, we should have seen
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blots, called masses; blots without form, and therefore without
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meaning. These blots of light and dark, as being the result of
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labour, are always clumsy and indefinite; the effect of rubbing
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out and putting in, like the progress of a blind man, or of one
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in the dark, who feels his way, but does not see it. These are
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not so. Even the copy from Raphael's Cartoon of St. Paul
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preaching, is a firm, determinate outline, struck at once, as
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Protogenes struck his line, when he meant to make himself known
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to Apelles. The map of Allestone has the same character of the
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firm and determinate. All his efforts prove this little boy to
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have had that greatest of all blessings, a strong imagination, a
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clear idea, and a determinate vision of things in his own mind.
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*
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I say I shant live five years
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And if I live one it will be a
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Wonder June 1793
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[Memoranda from the Notebook]
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Tuesday Janry. 20. 1807 between Two & Seven in the Evening-
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--Despair
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Memorandum
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To Engrave on Pewter. Let there be first a drawing made
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correctly with black lead pencil, let nothing be to seek, then
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rub it off on the plate coverd with white wax. or perhaps pass it
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thro press. this will produce certain & determind forms on the
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plate & time will not be wasted in seeking them afterwards
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Memorandum
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To Woodcut on Pewter. lay a ground on the Plate & smoke it
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as for Etching, then trace your outline<s> [& draw, them with
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a needle]. and beginning with the spots of light on each
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object with an oval pointed needle scrape off the ground. [&
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instead of etching the shadowy strokes] as a direction for
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your graver then proceed to graving with the ground on the plate
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being as careful as possible not to hurt the ground because it
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being black will shew perfectly what is wanted [towards]
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Memorandum
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To Woodcut on Copper Lay a ground as for Etching. trace &
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instead of Etching the blacks Etch the whites & bite it in
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PAGE 14 (facing the first emblem drawing)
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Ideas of Good & Evil
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PAGE 59
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From Bells Weekly Messenger Augst 4. 1811. t1523
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Salisbury July 29
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A Bill of Indictment was preferred against Peter Le Cave for
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Felony but returnd Ignoramus by the Grand jury. It appeard that
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he was in extreme indigence but was an Artist of very superior
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Merit[.] while he was in Wilton [Jail] <Goal> he painted
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many Pieces in the Style of Morland some of which are stated to
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be even superior to the performances of that Artist. with whom Le
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Cave lived many years as a Professional Assistant & he states
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that many Paintings of his were
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PAGE 67
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23 May 1810 found the Word Golden
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PAGE 72
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Jesus does not treat [?all ?alike] because he makes a Wide
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Distinction between the Sheep & the Goats consequently he is Not
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Charitable
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[Paper cut away]
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PAGE 96
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Who shall bind the Infinite
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PAGE 92 REVERSED
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Every thing which is in harmony with me I call In harmony--
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But there may be things which are Not in harmony with Me & yet
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are in a More perfect Harmony
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PAGE 101 REVERSED t1524
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|O Lapwing &c
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|An answer to the Parson
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on 1 Plate {Experiment
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|Riches
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|If you &c
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only Varnished over by Morland & sold by that Artist as his own.
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Many of the Principal Gentlemen of the County have visited Le
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Cave in the Goal & declared his drawings & Paintings in many
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instances to excel Morlands. The Writer of this Article has seen
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many of Le Caves Works & tho he does not pretend to the knowledge
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of ail artist yet he considers them as Chaste delineations of
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Rural Objects.
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Such is the Paragraph It confirms the Suspition I
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entertained concerning those two [Prints] I Engraved
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From for J. R. Smith. That Morland could not have Painted them
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as they were the works of a Correct Mind & no Blurrer
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PAGE 64
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I always thought that Jesus Christ was a Snubby or I should
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not have worshipd him if I had thought he had been one of those
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long spindle nosed rascals
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[Fortunes in Bysshe] t1525
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<South Molton Street>
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Sunday August . 1807 My Wife was told by a Spirit to look
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for her fortune by opening by chance a book which she had in her
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hand it was Bysshes Art of Poetry. She opend the following
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I saw 'em kindle with Desire
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While with soft sighs they blew the fire
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Saw the approaches of their joy
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He growing more fierce & she less coy
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Saw how they mingled melting rays
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Exchanging Love a thousand ways
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Kind was the force on every side
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Her new desire she could not hide
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Nor would the shepherd be denied
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The blessed minute he pursud
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Till she transported in his arms
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Yields to the Conqueror all her charms
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His panting breast to hers now joind
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They feast on raptures unconfind
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Vast & luxuriant such as prove
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The immortality of Love
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For who but a Divinity
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Could mingle souls to that degree
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And melt them into Extasy
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Now like the Phoenix both expire
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While from the ashes of their fire
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Spring up a new & soft desire
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Like charmers thrice they did invoke
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The God & thrice new Vigor took
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BEHN
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I was so well pleased with her Luck that I thought I would try my
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Own & opend the following
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As when the winds their airy quarrel try
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Justling from every quarter of the Sky
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This way & that the Mountain oak they bear
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His boughs they shatter & his branches tear
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PAGE 89
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With leaves & falling mast they spread the Ground
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The hollow Valleys Eccho [the] to the Sound
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Unmovd the royal plant their fury mocks
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Or shaken clings more closely to the rocks
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For as he shoots his lowring head on high
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So deep in earth his fixd foundations lie
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DRYDENS VIRGIL
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[Inscriptions in the ms of The Four Zoas]
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PAGE 56
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Christs Crucifix shall be made an excuse for Executing
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Criminals
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PAGE 88 On a leaf of the ms cut from a print of Edward & Elenor(1793)
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The Christian Religion teaches that No Man is Indifferent to
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you but that every one is Either Your friend or your enemy. he
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must necessarily be either the one [of] or the other And
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that he will be equally profitable both ways if you treat him as
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he deserves
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PAGE 93
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Unorganizd Innocence, All Impossibility
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom but never with Ignorance
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*
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*
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[Riddles Answered] t1526
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manuscript fragment, in Blake's hand but not invented by
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him
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his wit has not
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[be]cause he is always thinking of his End
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which has brimstone at both Ends
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Pair of Spectacles
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Ring her hands
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the Garden of Eden
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Duck
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[wh]en he calls her A Love lie Girl
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[t]hat LoveErrs
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forwards
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an Ell taken from London is Undone
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because they are [Isinglass] Eyes in Glass
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[Blake's Autograph in the Album of William Upcott] t1527
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WILLIAM BLAKE one who is very much delighted with being in
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good Company
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Born 28 Novr 1757 in London
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& has died several times since
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January 16
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1826
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The above was written & the drawing annexed by the desire of
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Mr Leigh how far it is an Autograph is a Question I do not
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think an Artist can write an Autograph especially one who has
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Studied in the Florentine & Roman Schools as such an one will
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Consider what he is doing but an Autograph as I understand it, is
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Writ helter skelter like a hog upon a rope or a Man who walks
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without Considering whether he shall run against a Post or a
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House or a Horse or a Man & I am apt to believe that what is done
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without meaning is very different from that which a Man Does with
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his Thought & Mind & ought not to be Calld by the Same Name.
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I consider the Autograph of Mr Cruikshank which very justly
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stands first in the Book & that Beautiful Specimen of Writing by
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Mr Comfield & my own; as standing [in] the same Predicament they
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are in some measure Works of Art & not of Nature or Chance
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Heaven born the Soul a Heavenward Course must hold
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For what delights the Sense is False & Weak
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Beyond the Visible World she soars to Seek
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Ideal Form, The Universal Mold
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Michael Angelo. Sonnet as Translated by Mr Wordsworth
