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Petrific

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Pe`trif´ic
a.1.Petrifying; petrifactive.
Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry.
- Milton.
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The excessive wonder in this episode has its symbol in the stony material of the infernal bridge, whose aggregated Soyle Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry, As with a Trident smote, and fix't as firm As Delos floating once; the rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.
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The term "blockhead" was one of Blake's favorite epithets for a stupid person, and Plates 8 and 9 represent Urizen as a literal blockhead (frontal, and then rear view), a squared form pressed down under the ponderous weight of his own laws which form "a roof, vast petrific around, / On all sides" in which his head is lodged (Plate 5:28-29).
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