 | William Mathews - 1874
...and in the engineer, who built the Eddystone lighthouse." When that prodigy of genius and precocity, Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride," was but eight years old, a manufacturer, desiring to present him with a cup, asked him what device... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 365 頁
...and in the engineer, who built the Eddystone lighthouse." When that prodigy of genius and precocity, Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul, that perished in his pride," was but eight years old, a manufacturer, desiring to present him with a cup, asked him what device... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 864 頁
...Love him, who for himself will take no. heed at all ? Resolution and Independence. Stanza 6. 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... | |
 | William Collins Sons and Co - 1875 - 192 頁
...erected at the east end of the viaduct, communicating with nearly every line in Great Britain. Poor Chatterton, "the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," after poisoning himself, in 1770,. ere he was eighteen years of age, in Brooke Street, on the north... | |
 | Sir Henry Parkes - 1876 - 464 頁
...open fields and measuring the distances of the stars with a string of rude wooden beads ; when — I think of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of Burns, who walked in glory and in joy, 1 Following his plough upon the mountain side ! when I think of William... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 362 頁
...So, also, Wordsworth, in his mournful meditations on the most ill-starred of poets : — " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in pride." Milton waxes eloquent about " the happy walks and shades of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 454 頁
...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 put... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 706 頁
...him, sow fur him, and at hi* call !,<", i him, who for himself will take no care 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 spirits... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1877 - 340 頁
...brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel. — Ibid. Chatterton. — I thought of CHATTERTON, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that .perished in his pride. Chaucer — Ban CHAUCER, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthie to be fyled.... | |
 | 1878
...instrument of his preservation and of his regeneration. On the other hand, when, with Wordsworth, we think of Chatterton, " the marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," how impossible it is to avoid the reflection, that if he had met with some congenial sphere, such as... | |
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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;... 
