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ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS by WILLIAM BLAKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: CAN THERE BE ANYTHING MORE MEAN
Last Line: WHEN HE PRAISES MICHAEL ANGELO
Subject(s): BIBLE; HYPOCRISY; MYTHOLOGY; REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA (1723-1792); VILLAINS IN LITERATURE;

Can there be any thing more mean
More Malice in disguise
Than Praise a Man for doing what
That Man does most despise
Reynolds Lectures Exactly so
When he praises Michael Angelo





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