 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 - Page 145by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits... | |
 | 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 Soul that perished in his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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...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 put asunder whom so great... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...-J i* Kf-'r»': gf t/5-&':ft.,V ïfbe by say is utes be«what placed after has borne a -' • • " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless...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 put asunder whom so great... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 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 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 Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 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 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 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 - American literature - 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... | |
 | England - 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... | |
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