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So the Archangel Michael manages to stab Satan: the sword Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd / Not long divisible . . .
Ten of the best 2011
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So the Archangel Michael manages to stab Satan: the sword Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd / Not long divisible . . .
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Similarly, Rudy interprets the lines "How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,/Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five" in
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Our senses are filters even more than narrow-band conduits -- as Blake knew when he wrote of a bird's experience as quite possibly "an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five."
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
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Our senses are filters even more than narrow-band conduits -- as Blake knew when he wrote of a bird's experience as quite possibly "an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five."
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
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Now I perceiv'd to my Sorrow, how Passion had clos'd the Eyes of my
Exilius 2008
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Against which I clos'd the Eyes of my Understanding, and would never comprehend the real
Exilius 2008
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The "clos'd" world of the video game, however, is precisely the type of structure that Blake struggled against.
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