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No real style of colouring ever appears, But advertising in the newspapers. Look there—you’ll see Sir Joshua’s colouring: Look at his pictures—all has taken wing!

He.    Where thou dwellest, in what grove, Tell me Fair One, tell me Love; Where thou thy charming nest dost build, O thou pride of every field! She.   Yonder stands a lonely tree, There I live and mourn for…

To find the Western path, Right thro the Gates of Wrath I urge my way; Sweet Mercy leads me on With soft repentant moan: I see the break of day. The war of swords & spears, Melted by dewy tears,…

i I saw a Monk of Charlemaine Arise before my sight; I talk’d to the Grey Monk where he stood In beams of infernal light. ii 5Gibbon arose with a lash of steel, And Voltaire with a wracking wheel: The…

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on: ‘tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a Gem, Reflected in the beam divine; Blown…

Whate’er is done to her she cannot know, And if you’ll ask her she will swear it so, Whether ’tis good or evil none’s to blame: No one can take the pride, no one the shame.

When Klopstock England defied, Uprose William Blake in his pride; For old Nobodaddy aloft Farted and belch’d and cough’d; Then swore a great oath that made Heaven quake, And call’d aloud to English Blake. Blake was giving his body ease,…

i My Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. ii ‘A fathomless and boundless deep, There we wander, there we weep; On the hungry craving…

I Let the Brothels of Paris be opened With many an alluring dance To awake the [Pestilence] Physicians thro the city Said the beautiful Queen of France The King awoke on his couch of gold As soon as he heard…

1 [Eternity] He who bends to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sunrise. 2 The look of love alarms, Because it’s fill’d with fire; But the…