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<p> Blake, [[William]] (3), </p> <p> a [[Methodist]] Episcopal minister, was born at Stark, N. H., Nov. 30, 1811. He was; prayerful and thoughtful from childhood, but made no profession of religion until 1833; received an exhorter's, license soon after, and in 1837 joined the New Hampshire conference. In 1847, in consequence of excessive labors during a revival service, his health failed, and he was compelled to retire from the effective ranks. He died March 24, 1851. Mr. Blake was energetic and faithful, and possessed fair preaching abilities. See. Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1851, p. 596. </p>
<p> Poet, painter, and engraver, born in London, where, with rare intervals, he spent his life a mystic from his very boyhood; apprenticed to an engraver, whom he assisted with his drawings; started on original lines of his own as illustrator of books and a painter; devoted his leisure to poetry; wrote "Songs of Innocence," "Marriage of [[Heaven]] and Hell," "Gates of Paradise," and "Songs of Experience"; was an intensely religious man of deep spiritual insight, most vivid feeling and imagination; illustrated Young's "Night Thoughts," Blair's "Grave," and the "Book of Job." He was a man of stainless character but eccentric habits, and had for wife an angel, Catherine [[Boucher]] (1757-1828). </p>


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<ref name="term_25545"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/blake,+william+(3) William Blake from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_69106"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/blake,+william William Blake from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 16:55, 15 October 2021

William Blake [1]

Poet, painter, and engraver, born in London, where, with rare intervals, he spent his life a mystic from his very boyhood; apprenticed to an engraver, whom he assisted with his drawings; started on original lines of his own as illustrator of books and a painter; devoted his leisure to poetry; wrote "Songs of Innocence," "Marriage of Heaven and Hell," "Gates of Paradise," and "Songs of Experience"; was an intensely religious man of deep spiritual insight, most vivid feeling and imagination; illustrated Young's "Night Thoughts," Blair's "Grave," and the "Book of Job." He was a man of stainless character but eccentric habits, and had for wife an angel, Catherine Boucher (1757-1828).

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