| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good;...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all ? 91 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perish'd in its pride; Of... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at allt I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perish 'd in its pride ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would corae unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good;...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all 7 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy,1 The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him... | |
| 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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