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WILLIAM BLAKE.

stood side by side with the foremost in our literature, probably in all literatures. For in the splendour and magnitude of his imagination—it cannot too often be insisted—he has no superior; and though it is possible to point to his vast overplus of words utterly without meaning, except on some inane theory of magico-cabalistic mysticism, in proof of his insanity; yet, in spite of all, there burned through this incoherent windy drift, and for ever stands revealed as in golden letters of light, a treasury of thought so rich that it constitutes a veritable and almost unparalleled intellectual heritage for all the ages to come.


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