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Title: The Savoy
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898
Subjects: English literature Literature, Modern Art
Publisher: London, L. Smithers
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ts, outof memory and whim ; and this could best be done by purifying ones mind, aswith a flame, in study of the works of the great masters, who were great becausethey had been granted by divine favour a vision of the unfallen world, fromwhich others are kept apart by the flaming sword that turns every way ; andby flying from the painters who studied the vegetable glass for its own sake,and not to discover there the shadows of imperishable beings and substances,and who entered into their own minds, not to make the unfallen world a testof all they saw and heard and felt with the senses, but to cover the nakedspirit with the rotten rags of memory of older sensations. To distinguishbetween these two schools, and to cleave always to the Florentine, and soto escape the fascination of those who seemed to him to offer a spirit, wearywith the labours of inspiration, the sleep of nature, had been the struggle of thefirst half of his life ; and it was only after his return to London from Felpham
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BLAKES ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 45 in 1804 that he finally escaped from temptations and perturbations whichsought to destroy the imaginative power at the hands of Venetian andFlemish Demons. The spirit of Titian, and one must always rememberthat he had only seen poor engravings, and what his disciple, Palmer, hascalled picture dealers Titians, was particularly active in raising doubtsconcerning the possibility of executing without a model ; and when once hehad raised the doubt it became easy for him to snatch away the vision timeafter time, and Blakes imagination weakened and darkened until a memory of nature and of the pictures of various schools possessed his mind,instead of appropriate execution flowing from the vision itself. But nowhe wrote, O glory! and O delight! I have entirely reduced that spectrousfiend to his station —he had overcome the merely reasoning and sensualportion of the mind— whose annoyance has been the ruin of my labours forthe last twenty years of

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