| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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...his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We Poets in our youth... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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...his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified; We Poets in our youth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...Dryden, or to come after Shakspeare alone. A living poet has borne a better testimony to him — " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; And him* who walked in glory and in joy Beside his plough along the mountain side." I am loth to... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...shall never fail, Though far from these and Irwan's vale. THOMAS CHATTERTON. BORN 1752— DIED 1770. I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy. The sleepless soul, that perished in his pride. THIS highly-gifted and unfortunate youth was the posthumous child of the master of a free-school in... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...CHATTEUTON. The success of Macpherson's * Ossiaii' seems to have prompted the remarkable forgeries of Chatterton : The marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride.* Such precocity of genius was never perhaps before witnessed. "We 1m ve the poems of Pope and Cowley... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...Commentaries, on the principal Diseases affecting the Head." Illustrated by cases. The works of Thomas Chatterton, "The marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," are preparing for publication with an introductory essay. The Indicator, and the Companion Sketches... | |
| 1833 - 1032 pages
...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 ; and if they died miserably, " How may I perish!" But they wanted wisdom. Therefore the... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pages
...good: 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; Following his plough along the mountain side ; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, By our own spirits... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." Of him who walked in glory and in joy, I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy— The sleepless soul that perished in his pride : We poets, in our youth, begin in gladness, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own... | |
| 1840 - 528 pages
...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... | |
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