Chatterton: a Biographical StudyMacmillan and Company, 1869 - 328 pages |
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Ælla already ancient antiquary antique poems appears Barrett Barrett's History Battle of Hastings Bergham pedigree biographers Bluecoat boy Bluecoat School Bristol Burgum Canynge's CHAP CHAPTER character charity boy Chat Clayfield Colston's Hospital Colston's school copy Cottle Country Magazine Croft Dean Milles death Dix's doubt early Edkins eighteenth century ere long fame fancy favourite genius Gent genuine George Catcott heraldic Horace Walpole Joseph Cottle Kew Gardens later Latin learned letters literary London Lord Mary Redcliffe master Mayor modern mother muse parchments patron pewterer Phillips piece poet's poetical poetry priest produced Redcliffe Church Redcliffe Hill romance Rowley poems Rowley's Rowleyan satirical says sexton Sir Herbert Croft sister song Southey spirit stanzas strange taste terton Thistlethwaite Thomas Chatterton Thomas Rowley tion Town and Country verse Vicar Walpole William Canynge writing young poet youth
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Page 109 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Page 215 - Leuconomus * (beneath well-sounding Greek I slur a name a poet must not speak) Stood pilloried on infamy's high stage, And bore the pelting scorn of half an age ; The very butt of slander, and the blot For every dart that malice ever shot.
Page 18 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
Page xvii - So the foundations of his mind were laid. In such communion, not from terror free, While yet a child, and long before his time, Had he perceived the presence and the power Of greatness...
Page 151 - Drain my heartes blood away ; Life and all its good I scorn, Dance by night, or feast by day. My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow-tree.
Page 18 - I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Page 74 - Catcott is very fond of talk and fame — His wish, a perpetuity of name ; Which to procure, a pewter altar's made, To bear his name and signify his trade ; In pomp burlesqued the rising spire to head, To tell futurity a pewterer's dead.
Page 207 - ALMIGHTY framer of the skies ! O let our pure devotion rise, Like incense in thy sight ! Wrapt in impenetrable shade The texture of our souls were made, Till thy command gave light. The sun of glory gleamed the ray, Refined the darkness into day, And bid the vapours fly : Impell'd by his eternal love He left His palaces above To cheer our gloomy sky.
Page 226 - Clayfield the sincerest thanks my gratitude can give ; and I will and direct that whatever any person may think the pleasure of reading my works worth, they immediately pay their own valuation to him, since it is then become a lawful debt to me, and to him as my executor in this case. I leave my moderation to the politicians on both sides of the question. I leave my generosity to our present Right Worshipful Mayor, Thomas Harris, Esq. I give my abstinence to the company at the Sheriffs' annual feast...
Page 183 - Mercury completes his transient year, Glowing, refulgent, with reflected glare; Bright Venus occupies a wider way, The early harbinger of night and day ; More distant still our globe terraqueous turns, Nor chills intense, nor fiercely heated burns ; Around her rolls the lunar orb of light, Trailing her silver glories through the night. On the earth's orbit see the various signs, Mark where the sun, our year completing, shines ; First the bright Ram his languid ray improves ; Next glaring wat'ry thro...