Arts & Sciences
A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze
From The Rossetti Manuscript (c. 1793–1818)
Arts & Sciences
Nature and Art in this together suit:
What is Most Grand is always most Minute.
Rubens thinks Tables, Chairs and Stools are Grand,
But Rafael thinks a Head, a foot, a hand.
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MLA
Blake, William. “A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/200/.
Chicago
Blake, William. “A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/200/.
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