The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With Notices of His Life, a History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters, Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Glossary, Volume 1 |
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... look back and see how Chatterton has been employed . He is reported to have stood aloof from the society of his schoolmates - to have made few acquaintances , and only amongst those whose dispositions inclined them to reflection . After ...
... look back and see how Chatterton has been employed . He is reported to have stood aloof from the society of his schoolmates - to have made few acquaintances , and only amongst those whose dispositions inclined them to reflection . After ...
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... looks , and thy blank looks - of what avail will they be ? Thou must get thee back to thy pewterer's shop , and thy smelting pot . The ancestors of Chatterton , for upwards of one hundred and fifty years , had filled the office of ...
... looks , and thy blank looks - of what avail will they be ? Thou must get thee back to thy pewterer's shop , and thy smelting pot . The ancestors of Chatterton , for upwards of one hundred and fifty years , had filled the office of ...
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... look , did not wander about the banks of the river , when he could snatch an hour for exercise , swinging his arms to and fro , and talking rapidly to himself , without an object . Those fits of sullenness and stu- pidity of which he ...
... look , did not wander about the banks of the river , when he could snatch an hour for exercise , swinging his arms to and fro , and talking rapidly to himself , without an object . Those fits of sullenness and stu- pidity of which he ...
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... look stedfastly in a person's face without speaking , or seeming to see the person , for a quarter of an hour or more . ' So says one of his companions ; but perhaps for a quarter of an hour we should read five minutes . Some considered ...
... look stedfastly in a person's face without speaking , or seeming to see the person , for a quarter of an hour or more . ' So says one of his companions ; but perhaps for a quarter of an hour we should read five minutes . Some considered ...
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... look , and a wildness attended with a visible contempt for others . " The silence , the solitude of this visionary boy , his eccentric habits , his singularities of behaviour , were not attributed to the true cause . His fits of ...
... look , and a wildness attended with a visible contempt for others . " The silence , the solitude of this visionary boy , his eccentric habits , his singularities of behaviour , were not attributed to the true cause . His fits of ...
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acquaintance alderman antique appear BACCHUS bard Barrett beauties breast Bristol Burgum Bute Catcott cease to sigh character charms Colston's school conscience copy CUPID Dean dear death divine ELEGY ev'ry eyes fame fancy fate favour flame fools genius give grace happy heart History of Bristol honour Horace Walpole Hoyland humble infamy JUNO JUPITER Kew Gardens LADY TEMPEST LATITAT letter literary live London Lord lyre Magazine Marylebone Gardens mind minister Miss muse nature never night numbers o'er passion pleasure poems poet praise pride Recitative Redcliffe church rise Rowley sable sacred satire scene shine sing Sir Herbert Croft sister smile soft song soul spirit strain tell terton thee thine THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought thro thunder town trifles Twitcher verses virtue Walpole Whilst write wrote ye Britons ynne young Zounds
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Page lxxxiii - I should have been blameable to his mother and society, if I had seduced an apprentice from his master to marry him to the nine muses : and I should have encouraged a propensity to forgery, which is not the talent most wanting culture in the present age.
Page 291 - Oh, how oft shall he On faith and changed gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire, Who now enjoys thee credulous...
Page 307 - Receiv'd to venerate as Gospel truth, Thy friendship never could be dear to me, Since all I am is opposite to thee. If ever obligated to thy purse, Rowley discharges all — my first chief curse! For had I never known the antique lore, I ne'er had ventur'd from my peaceful shore, To be the wreck of promises and hopes, A Boy of Learning, and a Bard of Tropes ; But happy in my humble sphere had moved, Untroubled, unsuspected, unbelov'd.
Page 299 - See in the circle next, Eliza placed, Two babes of love close clinging to her waist; Fair as before her works she stands confessed, In flowers and pearls by bounteous Kirkall dressed.
Page lxxxi - ... clerk or apprentice to an attorney, but had a taste and turn for more elegant studies ; and hinted a wish that I would assist him with my interest in emerging out of so dull a profession, by procuring him some place, in which he could pursue his natural bent.
Page 290 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
Page 303 - GOD, whose thunder shakes the sky, ' Whose eye this atom globe surveys ; To Thee, my only Rock, I fly, Thy mercy in Thy justice praise. The mystic mazes of Thy will, The shadows of celestial light, Are past the power of human skill ; But what the Eternal acts is right.
Page cvii - So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
Page 4 - Impell'd by his eternal Love He left his Palaces above To cheer our gloomy Sky How shall we celebrate the day, When God appeared in mortal clay, The mark of worldly scorn ; When the Archangel's heavenly Lays, Attempted the Redeemer's Praise And hail'd Salvation's Morn ! A Humble Form the Godhead wore, The Pains of Poverty he bore, To gaudy Pomp unknown : Tho' in a human walk he trod Still was the Man Almighty God In Glory all his own.
Page 311 - To the memory of Thomas Chatterton. Reader, judge not if thou art a Christian, believe that he shall be judged by a superior Power. To that Power alone is he now answerable.