6.A Memorable Fancy, Plates 6-7
As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the
enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and
insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as
the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the
Proverbs of Hell, shew the nature in Infernal wisdom better than
any description of buildings or garments,
When I came home：on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat
sided steep frowns over the present world, I saw a mighty Devil
folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock, with
corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now percieved by
the minds of men, ＆ read by them on earth.
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？
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