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... Perhaps it was not surprising that the peculiar merits of the ' Life of Sterling , ' by that distinguished writer , should have fascinated a youthful biographer ; and , although much less prominent , yet decided traces , of this ...
... perhaps , by the fascination of so peculiar a talent as Blake's , and by the force with which he ascribed his work to direct internal prompting , Mr. Gilchrist appears to us very decidedly to overrate Blake's originality in style . ' A ...
... perhaps , be summed up thus : that Fuseli , in spite of his dreamy tendencies , was saved , by his better education , from the aimless wildness ( ill - named extravagance or madness ) of Blake ; whilst Blake , in his turn , possessed of ...
... perhaps , to overrate at once its intrinsic value , and their own taste in admiring it . They forget that their sympathy is so deep , precisely because a limitation in the artist's genius fits in with a limitation in themselves . Some ...
... perhaps , the most characteristic of Blake's fervent sensibility , and of his vivid insight into a philosophy which he could not grasp or master . There is an irony , in the Greek sense , about some of the ' Proverbs of Hell , ' as he ...