There is one to a tiger, which I have heard recited, beginning: Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, Thro' the desarts of the night, which is glorious, but, alas! I have not the book; for the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades or a Mad House. But... The Living Age - Page 41906Full view - About this book
| Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...I have not the book, and the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades, or a mad-house — but I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." To describe the conversations which Blake held in prose with demons and in verse with angels, would... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1845 - 676 pages
...alas! I have not the book, and the man is flown, whither I know not— to Hades or a madhouse — but I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." In the descriptive catalogue of his exhibition, he makes some excellent remarks upon the character... | |
| 1845 - 692 pages
...alas ! I have not the book, and the man is flown, whither I know not—to Ilades or a madhouse —but I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the a¿çe.' In the descriptive catalogue of his exhibition, he makes some excellent remarks upoin the... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1861 - 356 pages
...he concludes : — " Alas ! the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades or a mad-house — but I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." It was at this time when at work on Job, with all the patience of the man of Uz, Blake, from nine at... | |
| 1879 - 360 pages
...Charles Lamb writes of it : "The wild designs of Blake which accompany Blair's Grave have great merit. I look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." Among the juveniles soon to be ready will be The Picture Play Book, Waler Lilies, by Harriet Myrtle,... | |
| 1879 - 578 pages
...alas II have not the book, for the man is flown, whither, I know not, to Hades, or a madhouse; yet, I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age. " Montgomery's book I have not much hopes from — the Society with the affected name, have been laboring... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...! I have not the book, and the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades or a madhouse — but I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." To describe the conversations which Blake held in prose with demons, and in verse with angels, would... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1886 - 526 pages
...! I have not the book ; for the man is flown, whither I know not 2 — to Hades or a Mad House. But I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age. Montgomery's book I have not much hope from, and the Society, with the affected name, has been laboring... | |
| 1887 - 548 pages
...I have not the book, for the man is flown — whither I know not — to Hades, or a mad-house. But I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age." There was another painter of that period whom the public reckoned one of the "most extraordinary persons... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1888 - 408 pages
...alas ! I have not the book ; for the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades or a Mad House. But I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age. Montgomery's book I have not much hope from. The Society, with the affected name, has been labouring... | |
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