Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: William Blake

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849
William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavill...William Blake Johann LavaterAphorismsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'"William Blake Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B...William Blake Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B...William Blake John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
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1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B...William Blake Francis BaconThe Advancement of LearningPrint: Book
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1800-1849
William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B...William Blake Sir Joshua ReynoldsWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".William Blake John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th...William Blake Numbers 24:13Print: Book
1700-1799"I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from...William Blake BiblePrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799"What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive...William Blake HomerunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799"Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learni...William Blake Francis BaconAdvancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47Print: Book
1800-1849"Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph...William Blake John MiltonunknownUnknown
1800-1849"I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1...William Blake Giordano BrunounknownUnknown
1800-1849"Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, com...William Blake HomerIliadPrint: Book
1800-1849"Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical ...William Blake Francis BaconUnknown
1800-1849"Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Mil...William Blake William Gilpin3 Essays on Picturesque BeautyPrint: Book
1800-1849"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find ...William Blake The New TestamentPrint: Book

 

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