LIFE

OF

WILLIAM BLAKE,

"PICTOR IGNOTUS."

WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS

BY THE LATE

ALEXANDER GILCHRIST,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF WILLIAM ETTY, R.A."

ILLUSTRATED FROM BLAKE'S OWN WORKS,

IN FACSIMILE BY W. J. LINTON,

AND IN PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

WITH A FEW OF BLAKE'S ORIGINAL PLATES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1863.
LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

I ASSERT, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. “What!” it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

BLAKE. A Vision of the Last Judgment.