 But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did it happen so; And fears and fancies thick upon me came; Dim sadness...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1521871Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 528 lehte
...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 lehte
...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, Of him who walk'd-in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side;" and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 lehte
...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, Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain side;" and... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 lehte
...the might Of joy in minds that can no further go — As high as we have mounted in delight, In oui dejection do we sink as low — To me that morning...and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name. I heard the skylark warbling in the sky, And I bethought me of the playful hare; Even such a happy child... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 lehte
...THOMAS CHATTERTON. The success of Macpherson's Ossian seems to have prompted the remarkable forgeries o weens fair peace can ipring Beneath the pompous dome of kesar or of king. See in ea Such precocity of genius was never perhaps before witnessed. We have the poems of Popé and Cowley... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 lehte
...from the might Of joy in minde that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low ; To me that morning did...— and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name. v. My whole life 1 have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 lehte
...might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejeetion do we sink as low ; To me that morning did it happen...— and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name. v. l52 My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As... | |
 | 1845 - 864 lehte
...lived and died in darkness, and was saved from suicide by the breaking of a garter. Thus was it with Chatterton, ' the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride.' Thus, too, the man that ' walked in glory and in joy behind his plough upon the mountain side,' describes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 lehte
...only a very delicate but a very rare plant. But be this as it may, the feelings with which, "I think of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul, that perished in his pride ; Of Burns, who walk'd in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side " 1S — are widely... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 lehte
...employ : My old remembrances went from me wholly ; And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy! And fears, and fancies, thick upon me came ; Dim sadness — and blind thought, I knew not, nor could name. I heard the skylark warbling in the sky ; And I bethought me of... | |
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