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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
36. (Epilogue to The Gates of Paradise.) “ To the Accuser who is
The God of This World.”
Below this title is a serpent. Below that are the lines :
Truly My Satan thou art but a Dunce
And dost not know the Garment from the Man.
Every Harlot was a Virgin once
Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.
Tho thou art Worshipd by the Names Divine
Of Jesus & Jehovah, thou art still
The Son of Morn in weary Night's decline
The lost Travellers Dream under the Hill.
Below these lines is a design: the lost traveller lying under the
hill asleep and Satan appearing above him as his Dream, with sun,
moon, and stars in his wings.
3! X 2\ in.
This plate only appears in the second edition of The Gates of
Paradise, with two other pages, of text only.
37. The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, and Murder. (A scene in
THE LAST JUDGMENT.)
Accuser, Judge, and Executioner standing among the flames which
are about to annihilate them. Below, Our End is Come. Publish’d
June 5, 1793, by W. Blake Lambeth.
ll X 3! in.
See reproduction, Plate 10.
First State : With the legend Our End is Come.
Second State : The imprint is the same ; but for the legend Our
End is Come is substituted When the Senses are shaken And
the soul is driven to Madness. Page 56. This is a quotation
from the “ Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King
Edward the Fourth,” printed on p. 56 of the Poetical Sketches
(Sampson's Oxford edition of Blake's Poetical Works, p, 42).
This fragment opens :
O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
To drown the throat of war ! When the senses
Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
Who can stand i
Third State : As reproduced. Below the subject A Scene in the
Last Judgment. Satan’s Holy Trinity. The Accuser, the
Judge, and the Executioner. The former imprint is deleted as
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36. (Epilogue to The Gates of Paradise.) “ To the Accuser who is
The God of This World.”
Below this title is a serpent. Below that are the lines :
Truly My Satan thou art but a Dunce
And dost not know the Garment from the Man.
Every Harlot was a Virgin once
Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.
Tho thou art Worshipd by the Names Divine
Of Jesus & Jehovah, thou art still
The Son of Morn in weary Night's decline
The lost Travellers Dream under the Hill.
Below these lines is a design: the lost traveller lying under the
hill asleep and Satan appearing above him as his Dream, with sun,
moon, and stars in his wings.
3! X 2\ in.
This plate only appears in the second edition of The Gates of
Paradise, with two other pages, of text only.
37. The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, and Murder. (A scene in
THE LAST JUDGMENT.)
Accuser, Judge, and Executioner standing among the flames which
are about to annihilate them. Below, Our End is Come. Publish’d
June 5, 1793, by W. Blake Lambeth.
ll X 3! in.
See reproduction, Plate 10.
First State : With the legend Our End is Come.
Second State : The imprint is the same ; but for the legend Our
End is Come is substituted When the Senses are shaken And
the soul is driven to Madness. Page 56. This is a quotation
from the “ Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King
Edward the Fourth,” printed on p. 56 of the Poetical Sketches
(Sampson's Oxford edition of Blake's Poetical Works, p, 42).
This fragment opens :
O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
To drown the throat of war ! When the senses
Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
Who can stand i
Third State : As reproduced. Below the subject A Scene in the
Last Judgment. Satan’s Holy Trinity. The Accuser, the
Judge, and the Executioner. The former imprint is deleted as
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