 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness;...  Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Sivu 145tekijä(t) William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 sivua
...says the old maxim, " be wise enough to write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy — The sleepless soul that perished in his pride : Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own spirits... | |
 | 1839 - 538 sivua
...in that stanza opening with the finest description yet given of the hapless prodigy of Bristol : " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side : By our own... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sivua
...says the old maxim, " be wise enough to write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy — The sleepless soul that perished in his pride : Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own spirits... | |
 | 1840 - 528 sivua
...it beneath them to notice Chatterton. Wordsworth, in one of his best poems, has the following : — I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, — The sleepless soul that perished in his pride. Shelley, in his Adonais, or Elegy on the Death of poor Keats — a poem which would have given him... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 sivua
...upon him all alone in a mountain-cave, and he quaked before the mystery of man's troubled life. "He thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in its pride, Of him who walk'd-in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side;" and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 sivua
...upon him all alone in a mountain-cave, and he quaked before the mystery of man's troubled life. " He thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in its pride, Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side;" and... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 sivua
...should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all ? I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following the plough, along the mountain-side : By our own... | |
 | 1871 - 860 sivua
...And fears and fancies thick upon me came. Dim sadness and blind thoughts I knew not, nor could name. I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked iff glory and in joy Behind his plough along the mountain-side. By our own spirits... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sivua
...THOMAS CHATTERTON. The success of Macpherson's Ossian seems to have prompted the remarkable forgeries o weens fair peace can ipring Beneath the pompous dome of kesar or of king. See in ea Such precocity of genius was never perhaps before witnessed. We have the poems of Popé and Cowley... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 sivua
...genius, and hallowed by misfortune — I mean Cantterton. Yet I must say what I think of him, and that is not what is generally thought. I pass over the...borne a better testimony to him — " I thought of Chattcrton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; And him* who walked... | |
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