LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, "PICTOR IGNOTUS." WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS BY THE LATE ALEXANDER GILCHRIST, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; ILLUSTRATED FROM BLAKE'S OWN WORKS, IN FACSIMILE BY W. J. LINTON, AND IN PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; WITH A FEW OF BLAKE'S ORIGINAL PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. London and Cambridge: 1863. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS [The Right of Translation is reserved.] I ASSERT, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. “What!” it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it. BLAKE. A Vision of the Last Judgment. |