Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven opens here on all sides her golden gates : her windows are not obstructed by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more... Essays - Էջ 169Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 312 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 էջ
...adding ornaments and not principals. Nothing can be more grand than its simplicity and usefulness. Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...of their houses. My wife and sister are both well, and are courting Neptune for an embrace." Thus far had he written in the language and feelings of a... | |
| William Allen Butler - 1886 - 308 էջ
...pleasant glee,' wrote to his ' archangel sculptor ' friend about his little cottage by the sea : ' Heaven opens here on 'all sides her golden gates ; her windows are not obstructed by vapors." "All are pleased, save Stella. With her, we have had no end of trouble. The removal from the... | |
| 1888 - 742 էջ
...body laid out on a rose leaf." " Dear Sculptor of Eternity," so he writes to Flaxman from Felpham, " Heaven opens here on all sides her golden gates ;...obstructed by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants are here distinctly heard." It is easy to understand how a mind, attuned like this, became in the midst... | |
| William Allingham - 1889 - 182 էջ
...Blake went down to his seaside cottage in September, 1800, and soon after wrote to Flaxman : — " Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." Page 27, GEORGE ; OB, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS. — This was first printed in Household Words : the Great... | |
| William Blake - 1890 - 382 էջ
...in beauty or use. " Mr. Hayley received us with his usual brotherly affection. I have begun to work. Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...sister are both well, courting Neptune for an embrace. " Our journey was very pleasant, and, though we had a great deal of luggage, no grumbling. All was... | |
| 1892 - 590 էջ
...shapes. " Heaven," he says, in writing from his home, " beneath our thatched roof of russet gold — heaven opens here on all sides her golden gates ; her windows are not obstructed by vapors ; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard, and their forms more distinctly... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 416 էջ
...in beauty or use. "Mr. Hayley received us with his usual brotherly affection. I have begun to work. Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...sister are both well, courting Neptune for an embrace. " Our journey was very pleasant, and, though we had a great deal of luggage, no grumbling. All was... | |
| Alfred Thomas Story - 1893 - 192 էջ
...received us with his usual brotherly affection. I have begun to work. Felpham is a sweet place fort study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven...sister are both well, courting Neptune for an embrace. " Our journey was very pleasant, and, though we had a great deal of luggage, no grumbling. All was... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 290 էջ
...marriage ring of the land, affected Blake with enthusiastic delight. " Felpham," he wrote to Flaxman, " is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual...and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." He continues : " I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 896 էջ
...there. Writing to his friend Flaxman, by whom he had been introduced to Hayley, he says — " Felpham ia a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual...her golden gates ; her windows are not obstructed by vapors ; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more distinctly... | |
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