INDEX

Abel the Shepherd, 176 Abstract Philosophy, 109 Adam and Eve observed by Satan, 123 Aders, Mr and Mrs, 187 Age of Reason, 87, 93 Ahania, 111 Akashic Records, 132 Albion, 149-50 America: A Prophecy, 96-7, 98 American Independence, War of, 86, 87, 98 Ancient of Days, 101 Angelic Wisdom, 58 Angelico, Fra, 176 Arblay, M. d’, 85 Asia, 109 Astrology, 172-3 Augustine, St, 152 Austen, Jane, 170 Barbauld, Mrs, 30 Bartolozzi, 17, 123, 154 Barton, Bernard, 174 Bas Bleu, 28 Basire, 17, 18 Bastille, the, 89, 90, 92 Bath, Lord, 29 Beaumont and Fletcher, 33 Beethoven, 170 Bible, the, 122, 133 Bildad, 184 Blair’s Grave, 154-9 Blake, Catherine, 30, 31, 37, 38, 40, 66, 148 Blake, James (Sen.), 12, 39 Blake, James (Jun.), 39 Blake, Robert, 14, 39, 40, 45 Blake, William, born, 11; baptized, 12; vision at Peckham Rye, 13; books read, 14; learns drawing from Mr Pars, 15; apprenticed to Basire, 17; joins the Academy under Moser, 21; designs Morning, or Glad Day, 22; falls in love with Polly Wood, 23; marries Catherine Boucher, 24; meets Flaxman, 30; goes to Mrs Mathew’s parties, 30; on war, 34-5; lodges at 23 Green Street, 37; moves to 27 Broad Street, 39; nurses Robert, 40; moves to 28 Poland Street, 40; engraves after Stothard, 44; Robert imparts method of engraving, 45; comments on Lavater’s Aphorisms, 51; and Swedenborg, 55-80; reads and annotates Angelic Wisdom, 62-5; subscribes his name to tenets of the New Church, 66; on Swedenborg, 72; takes leave of Swedenborg, 80; among the rebels, 89; wears the bonnet rouge, 89; on sex, 94-6; moves to 13 Hercules Buildings, 98; engraves Europe: A Prophecy, 99, 101; illustrates Bürger’s Lenore, 111; goes to Felpham, 117; paints miniatures, 119-21; learns Greek from Hayley, 121; returns to London, 127; South Molton Street, 127; vision clears after visit to Truchsess gallery, 129; and Sir J. Reynolds, 156-9; writes descriptive catalogue, 161; and Chaucer, 162-3; vision of Jesus Christ, 165-8; new friends, 172; and Varley, 172-3; removes to 3 Fountain Court, Strand, 180; sells his collection of engravings, 180; and Book of Job, 182-86; and Dante, 187; illness, 187; death, 188 Blue-stockings, the, 26-36 Boehme, Jacob, 23, 47, 49, 51, 56, 58, 72, 118, 165, 172 Bond Street, 21 Book for a Rainy Day, 30 Book of Ahania, 110 Book of Job, 181-2 Book of Los, 110 Book of Urizen, 106 Boucher, Catherine, 24 Bourdon, 129 Bousset, 61 Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, 123 Brahma, 109 Bray, Mrs, 160, 162 Breughel, 129 Brontë, Charlotte, 177 Brook Kerith, 178 Brooke, Mrs, 30 Bull and Bush, North End, Hampstead, 174 Bunyan, John, 140 Bürger, 111, 112 Burke, Edmund, 85, 89 Burney, Dr, 29 Burney, Fanny, 28, 42, 85, 86, 170 Butler, Samuel, 166 Butts, Thomas, 121, 124, 125, 127, 132 Calvert, Edward, 175, 176 Candide, 28 Caracci, 126 Carter, Mrs, 26, 27, 28, 30 Castle of Otranto, 34 Catherine of Siena, St, 53, 133 Chapone, Mrs, 30, 31 Chatterton, 14 Chaucer, 161, 162, 163 Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims, 159 Chesterfield, Lord, Letters to his Son, 27 Christ, 152 Christ and the Woman of Samaria, 176 Clod, the, 104 Coleridge, S. T., 82, 170 Collins’ Farm, North End, Hampstead, 174 Correggio, 126, 172 Cosmos, the, 134, 147, 183, 185 Cowper, W., 82, 116, 123, 124, 130 Cowper, Life of, 130 Crime and Punishment, 98 Croce, Benedetto, 193 Cromek, Robert Hartley, 154-6, 159, 160, 165 Cumberland, George, 172 Dante, 73, 114, 133, 187, 192 Deism, 144-5 De Profundis, 178 Designs for Job, 183-6 Dialogues of the Dead, 26 Dogma, 192 Dostoieffski, 98 Dualism, 143 Dürer, Albert, 16, 17, 41, 42, 129, 172 Earl Godwin, 42 Ego-theism, 71 Elihu, 185 Elinor, 112 Eliot, George, 112 Eliphaz, 184 Elizabethan age, 16 Emmet, the, 193 Engleheart, 160 Enitharmon, 99, 100, 108 Eno, 111 Enquiry concerning Political Justice, 82 Epipsychidion, 95 Essay on Old Maids, 121 Essenes, the, 61 Europe, 109 Europe: A Prophecy, 99-101 Evelina, 42 Ezekiel, 137, 144, 181, 189 Ezra, 118 Fair Elinor, 34 Felpham, 117, 119, 125, 126 Fénelon, 50, 53 Fielding, Copley, 172 Fingal, 14 Flaxman, 22, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 159, 160, 171 Flaxman, Maria, 114 Flemish picturesque, 125 Florentine School of Art, 16 Fludd, 23 Foote, Samuel, 49 Fordyce, Dr, 85 France, 109 Francis of Assisi, St, 45 Franklin, 96 French Revolution, 85, 87, 89, 90-2, 101, 118 Fuseli, 24, 81, 171-2 Fuzon, 110, 111 Garrick, 115 Gaskell, Mrs, 177 Gates of Paradise, 178 Genlis, Madame de, 86 Ghost of a Flea, 173 Gibbon, Edward, 115 Gilchrist, 45 Glad Day, 42 Gnosticism, 134 Godwin, W., 82-4, 86, 87, 88, 92, 145, 172, 190 Goethe, 30, 36, 54, 170 Goldsmith, Oliver, 18 Gordon, Lord George, 23 Gothic architecture, 17 Grand Style, 125 Gregory, Dr, 85 Guyon, Madame, 23, 47, 50 Gwen, King of Norway, 34 Habakkuk, 129 Halls of Los, 122 Hamilton, 42 Hardy, 88 Harlow, 160 Haydn, 170 Hayley, William, 114-130, 137, 139-42, 153-4, 165, 171 Head of Romney, 153 Heath, James, 160 Heaven and Hell, 78 Hegel, 181 Hell, 57 Hemskerck, Martin, 16 Herbert, George, 176 Hervey, 49, 50 Hesketh, Lady, 116 Highland Society, 14 Hogarth, 42, 43, 158 Holbein, Hans, 129 Holcroft, 88 Holmes, James, 172, 175 Hoppner, 162 How sweet I roam’d, 16, 33 Hume, 36 Hunt, W. H., 172 Ibsen, 190 Imagination, 122, 125 Imlay, Charles, 86 Immanence, 192 Inspiration, 122, 132, 133 Isaiah, 118 Jacob, 169 Jefferson, 87 Jerusalem, 113, 131, 132, 142, 149, 151 Jesus Christ, 165-8, 189, 190-1 Job, Book of, 76 John, Saint, 152 Johnson, bookseller, 22, 81, 82, 86, 90, 123 Johnson, Dr, 20, 27, 28, 36, 47, 48, 145, 192 Johnson, Rev. John, 119, 122 Jonah, 181 Jonson, Ben, 14, 16, 31, 33 Joseph of Arimathea, 18 Juniper Hall, 85 Kaufmann, Angelica, 17 Keim, 61 King Edward the Third, 33 King Edward and Queen Elinor, 42 Klopstock’s Messiah, 122 Landseer, 161 Laocoon, 179 Lavater, 50-4, 171 Law, William, 48, 165 Le Brun, 21 Lenore, Bürger’s, 111 Linnell, John, 172, 173-5, 181 Little Girl Found, 103 Little Girl Lost, 103 Little Tom the Sailor, 119 Locke, John, 109 London, Bishop of, 29 Los, 75, 107, 108, 109, 139, 144, 194 Luke, St, 185 Luvah, 144 Lyca, 104 Lyttelton, Lord, 26, 29 Lytton, Bulwer, 82, 173, 178 Mackintosh, 89 Macpherson, 14, 15, 42 Mad Song, 33 Maimonides, 54 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 75, 81, 176 Martin, Rev. John, 173, 176 Mathew, Mrs, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 44, 119 Mathew, Rev. Henry, 29, 30, 32 Memory, 122, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 147 Mendelssohn, Moses, 54 Meyer, 115 Michael Angelo, 16, 17, 18, 21, 42, 44, 117, 126, 129, 139, 157, 158, 171 Milton, John, 44, 76, 105, 118, 123-4, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 151 Milton, 122, 124, 131, 132, 137-142, 152 Miniature Painting, 119, 120, 121, 125 Montagu, Mrs, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35 Moore, George, 61, 178 More, Hannah, 28, 115 Morland, George, 173 Morning, or Glad Day, 22 Morris, Mr, 71 Mortimer, 42 Moses, 182, 183 Mulgrave, Lord, 29 Mulready, W., 172 Muses, the, 122 My Silks and Fine Array, 33 Mysterious Mother, 34 Mysticism, German, 68 Napoleon, 170 Narbonne, M. de, 85 Nature, 13, 125, 146, 149 Nelly O’Brien, 158 Newman, Cardinal, 176 Newton, Sir Isaac, 109 Nietzsche, 54, 133, 139, 140, 170, 190 Night Thoughts, Young’s, 112 No Popery Riots, 23 North American States, 44 North End, Hampstead, 174, 176 Odin, 109 On Homer’s Poetry, 179 On Virgil, 179, 180 Oothoon, 94-5 Opie, Mrs, 115 Oram, 30 Orc, 99, 100, 109, 110 Ord, Mrs, 28 Ossian, 14 Ossian, 105 Paine, Tom, 82, 86-8, 89, 93, 96, 98, 144, 145, 190 Palamabron, 109 Palmer, Samuel, 172, 175-6 Pantheism, 71, 72, 106, 107, 143 Pantheism, Hindoo, 191 Paracelsus, 23, 47, 58, 118, 172 Paradise Lost, 136 Parker, 39, 40 Pars, Mr, 15 Pascal, 28 Passion, 76, 77, 147-8 Pastorals of Virgil, 180 Paul, St, 134, 135, 140, 146, 181 Paulus, Dr, 61 Pebble, the, 154 Penance of Jane Shore, 42 Pepys, Sir Lucas, 29 Percy’s Reliques, 14 Phillips, Captain, 29 Pilgrimage to Canterbury, 160-1 Piozzi, Mrs, 84 Plato, 109, 149, 152 Poetical Sketches, 33, 44 Poison Tree, 104 Pope, A., 114 Portland, Duchess of, 26 Price, Dr, 82 Priestley, Dr, 82, 87, 93 Proverbs of Hell, 76 Pythagoras, 109 Quakers, 174 Quintilian, 28 Radcliffe, Mrs, 34 Raphael, 16, 21, 42, 126, 157 Reign of Terror, 89, 100, 102, 117, 190 Rembrandt, 42, 158, 171 Renan, 61 Repression, 189-90, 191 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 118, 126, 156-9, 193 Reynolds’ Discourses, 157-8, 193 Richmond, George, 176-7 Rights of Man, 88 Rintrah, 109 Ritson’s English Songs, 44 Robinson, Crabb, 161, 177, 187 Romano, Julio, 16 Romney, 115, 116, 118, 119, 123, 124, 130 Romney, Life of, 130 Rose, Samuel, 127 Rotten Row, Hampstead, 174 Rousseau, 28, 36, 109, 145 Rowley, 14 Royal Academy, 21, 25 Rubens, 21, 42 Samson, Dr, 99 Satan, 76, 139, 183, 184, 186 Schiavonetti, Lewis, 155, 160 Schiavonetti, Niccolo, 160 Schoolboy, the, 104 Schweitzer, 61 Scott, Sir W., 14, 170 Seven Planes, 134 Seward, Anna, 115 Sex, 147-8 Shakespeare, 14, 26, 27, 33, 44, 76, 118, 132, 133 Sharpe, 123 Shelley, 71, 84, 95, 133, 172 Shields, F., 112 Shipwreck, after Romney, 130, 153 Skofield, 127 Smelt, Mr, 29 Smith, J. T., 30, 39 Socrates, 109 Song of Liberty, 93 Song of Los, 108 Songs of Experience, 70 Songs of Innocence, 69, 102, 103 Sotho, 109 Spencer, 31 Spencer’s Faery Queen, 14 Staël, Madame de, 86 Stothard, 22, 24, 44, 112, 114, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 171 Strange Story, 173 Strauss, 61 Swedenborg, 30, 39, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55-80, 58, 59, 105, 110, 118, 137, 138, 143, 160, 187, 190, 191, 192, 194 Swinburne, 14, 33, 53 Symbolism, 136 Tabard Inn, 162 Talleyrand, 85 Tatham, F., 177 Tharmas, 144 The Divine Image, 69 The Little Vagabond, 71 Thel, 66-9 Thelwall, 86 Theosophy, 134 Theotormon, 94-5 Theresa, St, 23, 47, 50 Thomson, 14 Thornton, Dr, 180 Thus Spake Zarathustra, 190 Tiger, the, 193 Tiriel, 66, 67 Titian, 42, 172 Tolstoï, 193s Tooke, Horne, 86 Townshend, Charles, 87 Transcendence, 192 Trismegistus, 109 Triumphs of Temper, 114, 115, 121 Truchsess, Count, 129 Urizen, 66, 67, 75, 93, 99, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 139, 142, 144, 194 Varley, Cornelius, 173 Varley, John, 172-3, 174 Venetian art, 117 Venetian finesse, 125 Vesey, Mrs, 28 Vinci, Leonardo da, 129, 185 Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 94-5, 97 Voltaire, 28, 36, 109, 145 Wainewright, T. G., 177-8 Walpole, Horace, 26, 28, 34, 85 War, 34, 35, 43, 44 Warren, 96 Washington, 96 Water Colour Society, 172 Watson, Caroline, 130 Watteau, 129 Webster, 33 Werther, 28 Wesley, John, 23, 48, 49, 50, 66, 139, 140, 165 West, Sir Benjamin, 173 Whitefield, 23, 49, 50, 66, 139, 140, 145, 165 Wilberforce, 177 Wilde, Oscar, 178 Wilkinson, Garth, 53, 68, 71, 72 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 82, 84-6, 88, 89, 92, 190 Wood, Polly, 23 Woollett, 17, 18 Wordsworth, 13, 170 Yeats, W. B., 112, 132 Young, Edward, 112 Zanoni, 173 Zoas, the Four, 113, 124, 131, 142, 145, 182 Zophar, 184

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[1] This fact was first pointed out by Mr Laurence Binyon.

[2] Jerusalem, 72. 50-52.

[3] Prov. viii. 27-31.

[4] Jerusalem, 15. 61-69.

[5] Thirteenth Discourse.

[6] Genesis xlvi. 13.

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