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... Blake's art as a designer and illustrator is not unlike the history of his poetical career ; with this great difference that in this field Blake's latest work was his greatest , and this too is not without significance for such a study ...
... Blake's art as a designer and illustrator is not unlike the history of his poetical career ; with this great difference that in this field Blake's latest work was his greatest , and this too is not without significance for such a study ...
Page 244
... Blake's prophetic designs . A careful study of them suggests that , if Blake was a much less exact draughtsman than his friend , the power of his designs is not altogether unconnected with the bold and irregular handling . What ...
... Blake's prophetic designs . A careful study of them suggests that , if Blake was a much less exact draughtsman than his friend , the power of his designs is not altogether unconnected with the bold and irregular handling . What ...
Page 253
... Blake came to a solution that gave him inward peace and joy in a new and personal revaluation of that Christianity ... Blake's belief in the innocence of children . St. Augustine saw the evidence of man's fallen nature in the passionate ...
... Blake came to a solution that gave him inward peace and joy in a new and personal revaluation of that Christianity ... Blake's belief in the innocence of children . St. Augustine saw the evidence of man's fallen nature in the passionate ...
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