| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pagine
...says the old maxim, " be wise enough to write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy — The...his pride : Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own spirits we are deified : We poets, in our... | |
| 1834 - 532 pagine
...in genial good ; — But hnw can he expect that others should Build fur him, sow for him, and at hi* call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all ?" This is precisely the mistake into which the young man who thinks his genius is to do every thing... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 pagine
...his gracious nature. How, says Wordsworth — How can he expect that others should Sow for him, reap for him, and, at his call, Love him, who for himself will take no thought at all ? How can he, indeed ? It is most unreasonable to do so : yet this expectation, if Coleridge... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pagine
...come unsought But how can he expect that others should To genial faith, still rich in genial good: Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him,...boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Following his plough along the mountain side ; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, By our own spirits... | |
| 1839 - 538 pagine
...in that stanza opening with the finest description yet given of the hapless prodigy of Bristol : " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless...his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side : By our own spirit* are ice deified ; We Poets in our... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pagine
...says the old maxim, " be wise enough to write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy — The...his pride : Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own spirits we are deified : We poets, in our... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 pagine
...with the finest description yet given of the hapless prodigy of Bristol : " I thought of CJiatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished...his pride ; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side : By our own spirits are ice deified; We Pocts in our... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pagine
...write one poem, and wise enough not to write more than one." Of him who walked in glory and in joy, I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy— The sleepless soul that perished in his pride : We poets, in our youth, begin in gladness, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own... | |
| 1840 - 528 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
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