Date: 1793
"There, train'd amid slaughter and ruin to wade, / They toil in the heart-steeling, barbarous trade."
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Date: 1793
"Amidst the lustful fires he walks: his feet become like brass, / His knees and thighs like silver, & his breast and head like gold."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1793
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
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Date: w. c. 1793? [in MS]
"Love to faults is always blind / Always is to joy inclind / Lawless wingd & unconfind / And breaks all chains from every mind."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: w. c. 1793? [in MS]
"Deceit to secresy confind / Lawful cautious & refind / To every thing but interest blind / And forges fetters for the mind."
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Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
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Date: 1794
Reason once fairer than the light [has now been] fould in Knowledges dark Prison house
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"I bring forth from my teeming bosom myriads of flames. / And thou dost stamp them with a signet"
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Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
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