...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away and displaying the infinite which was hid. " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything...sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." After which corrosive touch of revelation there follows a vision of knowledge ; first, the human nature...

...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away and displaying the infinite which was hid. " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything...infinite. " For man has closed himself up, till he socs all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." After which corrosive touch of revelation there...

...I flung myself upon the grass beneath an overshadowing tree, and read the sentences which follow : If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything...sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. How do you know but every Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, closed by your...

...conviction that " first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged," and that " if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite." This most extraordinary book is, in his own phraseology, the Bible of Hell. Whitman appeared at a time...

...away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. A .MEMORABLE FANCY. I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the...

...salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything...man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation....

...Blake, evil and gloomy symbols : they represent the dark, hard, and contracted life of Reason — " For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern " (Marriage of Heaven and Helt). (^.Jerusalem, p. 31,!. 6: ".Caves...

...life one of his favourite figures of speech. Already in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell he had said, " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite." In his last book, Milton, he says, on the last line of page 42, " To cleanse the Face of my Spirit...

...life one of his favourite figures of speech. Already in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell he had said, " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man, as it is, infinite." In his last book, Milton, he says, on the last line of page 42, " To cleanse the Face of my Spirit...

...PEOPLE BY EVELYN UNDERBILL Author of "Mysticism^' "The Mystic Way,' "Immanence: A Book of Verses." "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything...closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern." WILLIAM BLAKE. NEW YORK EP DUTTON & COMPANY 50 SI . U 51 Copyright,...