...being from the lowest forms of matter to the highest of spirits, with its beautiful illustration. Thus from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy ; last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flowers and their fruit Man's nourishment,...

...Each in their several active spheres assigned, Till body up to spirit irork, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the...bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to...

...and pure, As nearer to him plac'd or nearer tending, Each in their several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd...lighter the green stalk: from thence the leaves More airy: last, the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes. Flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment,...

...each creature having an allegiance toward the divine, as Raphael explains in his great organic images: So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aerie, last the bright consummate floure Spirits odorous breathes: flours and thir fruit Mans nourishment,...

...gesture there accompanies his explanation of sublimation, which he makes in terms of plant life: ... So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aerie, last the bright consummate floure Spirits odorous breathes.144 Blake's Neoplatonism would have...

...analysis imitating the branchings of tree or flower from a deeply nurtured, perhaps covert, point: So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk,...thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flow'r .... . . . flow'rs and thir fruit Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd. . . . (Paradise...

...of the perils of boundlessness, a judgment made on his own grounds. In his material universe, where "from the root / Springs lighter the green stalk,...the leaves / More aery, last the bright consummate flow'r/ Spirits odorous breathes" (V. 479-82), moral categories tend to assume physical shape. Boundaries...

...religious original, namely God's creative word: 'Fiat lux', 'Let there be light.' If Shakespeare kept " ... So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk: from thence the leaves More aerie: last, the bright consummat floure Spirits odorous breathes. Floures and thir fruit, Mans nourishment,...

...spiritous, and pure, As nearer to him plac't or nearer tending Each in thir several active Spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. (PL 5.475-79) Richardson is the first to suggest that perfection in Milton's definition is not absolute,...

...Wicksteed 21 7 identifies with human fertility. Blake may have had in mind Paradise Lost 5: 479-82: So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk,...thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flow'r Spirits odorous breathes . . . 1-49 A vision of the world in illo tempore, where the sons and...