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" Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world. "
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature - Page 230
by Robert Aris Willmott - 1851 - 301 pages
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The Life of Thomas Chatterton: Including His Unpublished Poems and ...

John Ross Dix - 1837 - 368 pages
...earthenware, on asking young Chatterton what device he would have painted on his, he replied, " paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." Under the tuition of his mother and sister he remained for nearly three years, during the latter part...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...a small present of earthenware ahout to be made to htm, " Paint me," he is s.ud to have replied, " an angel, with wings, and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." It was not, however, until his tenth year, that he acquired a taste for reading; for which he suddenly imhiliod...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...have painted on a cup which a friend of his mother's had promised to give him, he answered, " paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." At this time also he was much addicted to solitude and melancholy musings, in which he would pass hours...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...present of earthenware about to be made to him. " Paint me," he is «¡d to have replied, " an nngel. n Aikin Il was not, however, until his tenth year, that he acquired a taste for reading ; for which he suddenly...
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Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy ...

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 492 pages
...device should be inscribed on his. " Paint me," replied the future creator of Rowley — " Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." This anecdote rests upon credible authority — that of his sister. " My brother," writes the same...
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The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton, with notes [ed. by C.B. Willcox].

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 528 pages
...device should be inscribed on his. " Paint me," replied the future creator of Rowley — " Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." This anecdote rests upon credible authority — that of his sister. " My brother," writes the same...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Life of Chatterton. History of the ...

Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 494 pages
...device should be inscribed on his. " Paint me," replied the future creator of Rowley — " Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." This anecdote rests upon credible authority — that of his sister. " My brother," writes the same...
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American Eclectic and Museum of Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 pages
...what device should be inscribed on his. " Paint me," replied the future creator of Rowley, "paint me an angel with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." This anecdote rests upon credible authority, that of his sister. The sister also thus expresses herself:...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 12

1847 - 486 pages
...earthen ware, and being asked what device he would have painted on his, he exclaimed — " Paint me an angel with wings, and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." * The honorable ambition of the youthful mind of Milton opens itself -without reserve to his familiar...
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Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 pages
...of china ware, asked him what device he would choose to ornament his with. ' Paint me,' he said, ' an angel with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.' Here was a proof of innate ambition ; if his mother had had an underColston•s School. standing mind,...
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