Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare) (1912)
Rowley, Charles · London ; New York : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 130
ambition, drag him to the verge of the pit. The brokenhour-glass, with its scattered sands, figures mans waste oflife, and the pursuing storm the wrath to come. His studio at Merton was in the centre of afine old garden, and there he was always gladto see his friends. He was a wonderfully vividand… … Frederic Shields ment in Fountain Court, Strand, where Blakelived, worked, and died. He made a characteristicdrawing, which I possess. One evening he tookit to Cheyne Walk to show to Rossetti, andnext morning received this sonnet upon it:— WILLIAM BLAKE. (To Frederic Shields, on his sketch of…
Ancoats Brotherhood (Manchester, England) · Art · Pre-Raphaelitism
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