A Pretty Epigram
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A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze
NATURE[2] and Art in this together suit:
What is most grand is always most minute.
Rubens thinks tables, chairs and stools are grand,
But Raphael thinks a head, a foot, a hand.
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The original text:[3][edit]
A Pretty Epigram for the Entertainment of those who have Paid Great Sums in the Venetian & Flemish Ooze[4]
Nature & Art in this together Suit
What is Most Grand is always most Minute
Rubens thinks Tables Chairs & Stools are Grand
But Rafael thinks A Head a foot a hand
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French Revolution together with the Minor Prophetic Books and Selections from The Four Zoas, Milton & Jerusalem; edited with an introduction and textual notes by John Sampson, Hon. D.Litt. Oxon., 1862–1931. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1908.
- ↑ A Pretty Epigram for those who have given high prices for bad pictures MS. 1st rdg. del.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988, p. 513.
- ↑ A Pretty Epigram . . . N 38
Title revised in ms thus: A[Pretty Epigram for <the entertainment of> those who have Given high Prices for Bad Pictures And ?have]Pretty Epigram for [those] the Entertainment of those Who pay] <have Paid> Great Sums in the Venetian & Flemish Ooze
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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