Si ulterius ire pergis,
Adde his Sir James Bland Burges.
[5] Blake is seldom detected in borrowing, but when he tells us that
Milton’s shadow fell
Precipitant, loud thundering, into the sea of Time and space,
he is clearly, though perhaps unconsciously, reminiscent of Dyer’s
Towers
Tumbling all precipitate down dashed,
Rattling around, loud thundering to the Moon.
[6] The same remark is the subject of one of the finest passages of Lucretius:—