...Felpham," he said, " is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven opens on all sides her golden gates ; her windows are not...and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." The hyperbolical next sentence where he speaks of his wife and sister bathing — " Courting Neptune...

...spirits at Hercules Buildings, where he had no occasion to write long letters. " Felpham," he said, " is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven opens on all sides her golden gates ; her windows are not obstructed by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants...

...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 cheerfulness...

...he exclaims : — " Away to sweet Felpham, for Heaven is there," while to Flaxman he wrote : — " Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." Yet Blake tired of Sussex as he had tired of his former home, and in 1803 he returned to London, taking...

...renewed lease of life. " Mr Hayley received us with his usual brotherly affection. I have begun to work. Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...on all sides her golden gates ; her windows are not obscured by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants are most distinctly heard, and their forms more...

...But, like Goethe, Blake did not allow a grave to impose upon himv Living in a poor cottage, he wrote: "Heaven opens here; on all sides her golden gates; her windows are not obscured by vapors; voices of the celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more...

...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...distinctly seen ; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses.'1 In the same state of mind he wrote to Butts: 'The villagers of Felpham are not mere rustics;...

...gates ; her windows are not obStru&ed by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants are more diftincUy heard and their forms more distinctly seen ; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." He drew the cottage on one of the pages of Milton, with a naked image of himself walking in the garden,...

...the Life of Cowper, which occupied him there. As soon as he arrived in Sussex he wrote to Flaxman: "Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is...obstructed by vapours; voices of celestial inhabitants are most distinctly heard, and their forms more distinctly seen; and my cottage is also a shadow of their...

...golden gates ; her windows are not obstructed by vapours; voices of celestial inhabitants are most distinctly heard, and their forms more distinctly...seen; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses. . . . "And now begins a new life, because another covering of earth is shaken off. I am more famed...