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WILLIAM BLAKE
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Blake in his later years, and who ultimately destroyed them in deference to the mandate of a religious sect with which he had become connected![1]


Behemoth and Leviathan. From the "Book of Job." By W. Blake.

  1. It must be now about thirty-five years since we received a visit from this person; how he had found us out we cannot recollect. He stated that he had lived by painting miniatures, and, having been deprived of his customers by photography, proposed to