At that, when fully embarked again, he was not unhappy work being his natural element.' "'before him at dinner just what there was in the house, without any comment until, finally, the empty platter had to make its appearance: which hard fact effectually reminded him it was time to go to his engraving for a while. "Catherine learned to avoid these outbursts by setting "'Oh, d- the money!' he would shout 'it's always the money!' "When Catherine felt she had to mention that Once (he told me) he spent part of one of these last shillings on a camel's hair brush.' My business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes, expressing god-like sentiments." His disciple Samuel Palmer said that 'He worked on with serenity when there was only a shilling in the house. I might roll in wealth and ride in a golden chariot, were I to listen to the voice of parsimony. Of his turning pale when money had been offerd him', and he confessed that 'I seldom carry money in my pockets': '"Were I to love money," he said, "I should lose all power of original thought desire of gain deadens the genius of man. Blake himself 'spoke of his horror of Money.
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