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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
ii 5. Illustration X. “ The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn,”
The three friends condemn Job as the Accuser condemned him.
The symbolism of the marginal design is obscure. At the bottom are
“ the raven of night and the owl of unbelief.” (Damon.)
7f X 5^ in.
See reproduction, Plate 23.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. Before the darken-
ing of the mountain, throwing up the figures.
Third State : As published.
116. Illustration XI. “ With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me
AND AFFRIGHTEST ME WITH VISIONS.”
Job appeals from his friends to his own God, and is now horrified
by the apparition of this deity who appears in Job's own likeness, but
with a cloven hoof; he is indeed the Great Selfhood or Satan. He is
entwined with the Serpent, or Nature, and points with one hand to
the sensual hell and with the other to the heaven of self-righteousness
which is also hell. Blake has made changes in some of the texts
engraved in the margin; for their significance, see Mr. Wicksteed's
note.
7§ X 5f in*
See reproduction, Plate 24.
First State : Before the marginal design.
Second State : With marginal design, but before imprint and date.
Third State : With imprint Published as the Act directs by J. Linnell,
No 6 Cirencester Place. The upper left corner is still white.
Fourth State : With Blake's imprint and date. The corner is
shaded.
Fifth State : The corner is darkened; the forks of lightning are
now black with white edges.
117. Illustration XII. “ I am Young and ye are very Old ; where-
FORE I WAS AFRAID.”
The intervention of Elihu. The prominence and magnificence of
the Stars to which Elihu points in this design provoke speculation,
since Elihu makes no mention of them in his speech. There are also
stars in the marginal design, to which spirits ascend from the sleeping
Job. Mr. Damon says that “ to Elihu '' the stars represent the
glorious mechanism of the Universe, the ordered Reason which rules
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ii 5. Illustration X. “ The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn,”
The three friends condemn Job as the Accuser condemned him.
The symbolism of the marginal design is obscure. At the bottom are
“ the raven of night and the owl of unbelief.” (Damon.)
7f X 5^ in.
See reproduction, Plate 23.
First State : Before imprint and date.
Second State : With Blake's imprint and date. Before the darken-
ing of the mountain, throwing up the figures.
Third State : As published.
116. Illustration XI. “ With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me
AND AFFRIGHTEST ME WITH VISIONS.”
Job appeals from his friends to his own God, and is now horrified
by the apparition of this deity who appears in Job's own likeness, but
with a cloven hoof; he is indeed the Great Selfhood or Satan. He is
entwined with the Serpent, or Nature, and points with one hand to
the sensual hell and with the other to the heaven of self-righteousness
which is also hell. Blake has made changes in some of the texts
engraved in the margin; for their significance, see Mr. Wicksteed's
note.
7§ X 5f in*
See reproduction, Plate 24.
First State : Before the marginal design.
Second State : With marginal design, but before imprint and date.
Third State : With imprint Published as the Act directs by J. Linnell,
No 6 Cirencester Place. The upper left corner is still white.
Fourth State : With Blake's imprint and date. The corner is
shaded.
Fifth State : The corner is darkened; the forks of lightning are
now black with white edges.
117. Illustration XII. “ I am Young and ye are very Old ; where-
FORE I WAS AFRAID.”
The intervention of Elihu. The prominence and magnificence of
the Stars to which Elihu points in this design provoke speculation,
since Elihu makes no mention of them in his speech. There are also
stars in the marginal design, to which spirits ascend from the sleeping
Job. Mr. Damon says that “ to Elihu '' the stars represent the
glorious mechanism of the Universe, the ordered Reason which rules
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