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William Blake, Painter and Poet

Note 5 — Chapter III

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Blake is seldom detected in borrowing, but when he tells us that

Milton’s shadow fell Precipitant, loud thundering, into the sea of Time and space,

he is clearly, though perhaps unconsciously, reminiscent of Dyer’s

Towers Tumbling all precipitate down dashed, Rattling around, loud thundering to the Moon.

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