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
| 1873 - 808 sivua
...to be fed ; Cold, pain, and labor, and all fleshly ills; And mighty Poets in their misery dead." " Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ;" and many more. And it enfls with the fine moral : — "And when he ended, I could have laughed myself to... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 202 sivua
...and in the engineer, who built the Eddystone lighthouse." When that prodigy of genius and precocity, Chatterton, " the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride," was but eight years old, i manufacturer, desiring to present him with a cup, asked him what device... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sivua
...him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all ? Ibid. Stan2a 6. 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... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 386 sivua
...and in the engineer, who built the Eddystone lighthouse." When that prodigy of genius and precocity, Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride," was but eight years old, a manufacturer, desiring to present him with a cup, asked him what device... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 376 sivua
...and in the engineer, who built the Eddystone lighthouse." When that prodigy of genius and precocity, Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride," was but eight years old, a manufacturer, desiring to present him with a cup, asked him what device... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sivua
...his call Love him, who for himself will take no. heed at all ? Resolution and Independence. Stanza 6. 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... | |
| William Collins Sons and Co - 1875 - 202 sivua
...erected at the east end of the viaduct, communicating with nearly every line in Great Britain. Poor Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," after poisoning himself, in 1770,. ere he was eighteen years of age, in Brooke Street, on the north... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 sivua
...genius, and hallowed by misfortune — I mean Chatterton. Yet I must say what I think of him, and that is not what is generally thought. I pass over the disputes between the learned antiquaries, Dr. Milles, Herbert Croft, and Dr. Knox, whether he was to bo placed after Shakspeara and Dryden, or to... | |
| Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 sivua
...strife." So, also, Wordsworth, in his mournful meditations on the most ill-starred of poets : — " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in pride." Milton waxes eloquent about " the happy walks and shades... | |
| Sir Henry Parkes - 1876 - 498 sivua
...fields and measuring the distances of the stars with a string of rude wooden beads ; when — I think of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of Burns, who walked in glory and in joy, 1 Following his plough upon the mountain side ! when I... | |
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