>start with the greeks The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible; but when the New Age is at leisure to Pronounce, all will be set right & those Grand Works of the more ancient & consciously & professedly Inspired Men will hold their proper rank, & the Daughters of Memory shall become the Daughters of Inspiration. Shakespeare & Milton were both curb'd by the general malady & infection from the silly Greek & Latin slaves of the Sword. Rouze up O Young Men of the New Age! Set your foreheads against the ignorant Hirelings! For we have Hirelings in the Camp, the Court & the University, who would, if they could, for ever depress Mental & prolong Corporeal War. Painters! on you I call. Sculptors! Architects! Suffer not the fashionable Fools to depress your powers by the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works, or the expensive advertizing boasts that they make of such works; believe Christ & his Apostles that there is a Class of Men whose whole delight is in Destroying. We do not want either Greek or Roman Models if we are but just & true to our own Imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live for ever, in Jesus our Lord.
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire.
I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant Land.
“Would to God that all the Lord's people were Prophets.”
reminder he was doing unique hermeneuetics for his time. as he saw popular notions of the texts short sighted, doesnt necessarily mean you should avoid it altogether. he is christian after all which was downstream from platonism, which is heavily murdered even by that time frame.
Benjamin Morris
rate my prosody lads
Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song, Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your Realms Of terror & mild moony lustre, in soft sexual delusions Of varied beauty, to delight the wanderer and repose His burning thirst & freezing hunger! Come into my hand By your mild power descending down the Nerves of my right arm From out the Portals of my Brain, where by your ministry The Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted his Paradise, And in it caus'd the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet form In likeness of himself. Tell also of the False Tongue! vegetated Beneath your land of shadows, of its sacrifices, and Its offerings: even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God, Became its prey, a curse, an offering, and an atonement For Death Eternal in the heavens of Albion, & before the Gates Of Jerusalem his Emanation, in the heavens beneath Beulah.
Robert Sanders
Why has the tall s fallen into disuse? I find it rather aesthetic.
Evan Lee
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Leo Ortiz
>Why has the tall s fallen into disuse? SIMPLIFIED ORTHOGRAPHY
