Category William Blake

That God is Colouring Newton does shew, And the devil is a black outline, all of us know. Perhaps this little P’able may make us merry: A dog went over the water without a wherry; A bone which he had…

O dear Mother Outline ! of wisdom most sage, What’s the First Part of Painting; she said ‘Patronage.’ And what is the Second, to Please and Engage, She frowned h’ke a Fury, and said ‘ Patronage.’ And what is the Third…

I asked my Dear Friend Orator Prig: ‘What’s the first part of Oratory?’ He said: ‘A great wig.’ ‘And what is the second?’ Then, dancing a jig d bowing profoundly, he said : ‘ A great wig.’ ‘ And what is…

‘Twas the Greeks’ love of war i? Turn’d Love into a Boy, And Woman into a Statue of Stone — And away fled every Joy.

Why was Cupid a Boy, And why a boy was he? He should have been a Girl, For aught that I can see. For he shoots with his bow, And the Girl shoots with her Eye, And they both are…

I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea Said to my Fairy : was not it very queer ? Priestly & Bacon ! What, are you here ? Come before Joseph of Arimathea. Listen patient, & when Joseph has done I will make a…

For this is being a Friend just in the nick, Not when he’s well, but waiting till he’s sick ; He calls you to his help ; be you not mov’d Until, by being sick, his wants are prov’d. You see him…

The only Man that e’er I knew Who did not make me almost spew Was Fuseli: he was both Turk and Jew — And so, dear Christian Friends, how do you do ?

When I see a Rubens, Rembrandt, Correggio, I think of the crippled Harry and slobbering Joe; And then I question thus: Are artists’ rules To be drawn from the works of two manifest fools? 5Then God defend us from the…

You say their pictures well painted be, And yet they are blockheads you all agree: Thank God! I never was sent to school To be flogg’d into following the style of a fool. The errors of a wise man make…