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MORNING, OR GLAD DAY.
CHAPTER V.
STUDENT AND LOVER. 1778—82. [ÆT, 21—25.]
Apprenticeship to Basire having ended, Blake, now (1778) twenty-one, studied for a while in the newly formed Royal Academy: just then in an uncomfortable chrysalis condition, having had to quit its cramped lodgings in Old