1. great

  • On the Great Encouragement


    On the Great Encouragement Given by English Nobility & Gentry to Correggio Rubens Rembrandt Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani DuCrowe & Dilberry Doodle


    As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife

    For a Sword or a Cutlass a dagger or Knife

    So the Taught Savage Englishman spends his whole Fortune

    On...

  • The Life we have is very great.

    The Life we have is very great.

    The Life that we shall see

    Surpasses it, we know, because

    It is Infinity.

    But when all Space has been beheld

    And all Dominion shown

    The smallest Human Heart's extent

    Reduces it to none.

  • Though the great Waters sleep,

    Though the great Waters sleep,

    That they are still the Deep,

    We cannot doubt —

    No vacillating God

    Ignited this Abode

    To put it out —

  • To H (You think Fuseli is not a Great Painter)


    To H


    You think Fuseli is not a Great Painter Im Glad

    This is one of the best compliments he ever had

  • You said that I "was Great" — one Day —

    You said that I "was Great" — one Day —

    Then "Great" it be — if that please Thee —

    Or Small — or any size at all —

    Nay — I'm the size suit Thee —


    Tall — like the Stag — would that?

    Or lower — like the Wren —

    Or other heights of Other Ones

    I've seen?


    Tell which — it's...