This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...few are the readers who will ever penetrate beyond the first page or two. There is also the same religious fervour, the same high, devout aim: I touch the heavens as an instrument to glorify the Lord! exclaims Blake in one place; and the reader is, with impassioned earnestness, besought to give heed unto him in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...few are the readers who will ever penetrate beyond the first page or two. There is also the same religious fervour, the same high, devout aim: I touch the heavens as an instrument to glorify the Lord! exclaims Blake in one place; and the reader is, with impassioned earnestness, besought to give heed unto him in the following line, which recurs incessantly: --Mark well my words; they are of your eternal salvation! About Milton we hear very little, but his name is occasionally mentioned; as in the opening invocation: --Daughters of Beulah! muses who inspire the poet's song! Record the journey of immortal Milton through your realms Of terror and mild moony lustre! And afterwards we are told: --First Milton saw Albion upon the rock of ages, Deadly pale outstretch'd and snowy cold, storm-cover" d: A giant form of perfect beauty outstretch'd on the rock In solemn death: the Sea of Time and Space thunder'd aloud Against the rock which was inwrapp'd with the weeds of death Hovering over the cold bosom. In its vortex Milton bent down To the bosom of death. What was underneath soon seem'd above, A cloudy heaven mingled with stormy seas in loudest ruin. But as a wintry globe descends precipitant through Beulah, bursting With thunders loud and terrible, so Milton's shadow fell Precipitant, loud thund'ring into the sea of Time and Space. Whither we will not attempt to follow him, but conclude our gleanings from the 'Prophetic Books' with the following sweet reminiscence of life at Felpham which occurs in the Second Book of Milton; and with the quaint and pretty lines Apropos of which Blake introduces the idealized view of his cottage, given at the end of this chapter. Thou hearest the nightingale begin the song of spring; The lark, sitting upon his earthy bed, just as...
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