The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose worksW. P. Grant, 1842 |
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... breast . literary world ; but , in his modern poems , he is engaged in a style of com- position to which he was comparatively a stranger , and to which the bent of his mind and turn of his studies had not naturally inclined him ...
... breast . literary world ; but , in his modern poems , he is engaged in a style of com- position to which he was comparatively a stranger , and to which the bent of his mind and turn of his studies had not naturally inclined him ...
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... breast and scorn'd confinement there . Existence was a torment ! O my breast ! Can I find accents to unfold the rest ! Lock'd in each others arms , from Hyga's cave , They plung'd relentless to a wat❜ry grave ; And falling murmured to ...
... breast and scorn'd confinement there . Existence was a torment ! O my breast ! Can I find accents to unfold the rest ! Lock'd in each others arms , from Hyga's cave , They plung'd relentless to a wat❜ry grave ; And falling murmured to ...
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... breast . Strong were the passions of the son of Nair , Strong , as the tempest of the evening air . Insatiate in desire ; fierce as the boar ; Firm in resolve as Cannie's rocky shore . Long had the gods endeavour'd to destroy , All ...
... breast . Strong were the passions of the son of Nair , Strong , as the tempest of the evening air . Insatiate in desire ; fierce as the boar ; Firm in resolve as Cannie's rocky shore . Long had the gods endeavour'd to destroy , All ...
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... breast , Was Cawna , the companion of my rest . The sun sat low'ring in the western sky , The swelling tempest spread around the eye ; Upon my Cawna's bosom I reclin'd , Catching the breathing whispers of the wind Swift from the wood a ...
... breast , Was Cawna , the companion of my rest . The sun sat low'ring in the western sky , The swelling tempest spread around the eye ; Upon my Cawna's bosom I reclin'd , Catching the breathing whispers of the wind Swift from the wood a ...
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... breast , Can charm the night - mare conscience into rest ; And learned exorcists very lately made Greater improvements in the living trade ; Since Warburton ( of whom in future rhymes ) Has settled reformation on the times ; Whilst from ...
... breast , Can charm the night - mare conscience into rest ; And learned exorcists very lately made Greater improvements in the living trade ; Since Warburton ( of whom in future rhymes ) Has settled reformation on the times ; Whilst from ...
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Acquitaine alderman Argent Argent and Azure Argent three BACCHUS bard Bend Bishop of Worcester breast Bristol Burgham Burgum Camden Catcott cease to sigh charms Chatterton Cheveron conscience copy CUPID dear divine ELEGY Ermine ev'ry eyes fame fancy fate favour Fess fools Garter March genius give Godde grace Gules Gules three happy head heart honour Hoyland infamy John John of Worcester JUNO JUPITER Kew Gardens king Knight LADY TEMPEST LATITAT liberty Lord lordship Lyon Rampant lyre Magazine married mind minister ministry Miss muse never noble numbers o'er Passant passion pleasure poem praise pride Recitative reign rise Rowley Sable sacred satire scene shew shine sing smile soft song soul spirit Spryte strain tell terton thee thine Thomas THOMAS CHATTERTON Thomas Rowley thou thro thunder trembling trifling Twitcher Vert virtue Whilst William Canynge ye Britons Zounds
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Page 621 - Thy goodness love, thy justice fear! If in this bosom aught but Thee Encroaching sought a boundless sway, Omniscience could the danger see, And Mercy look the cause away. Then, why, my soul, dost thou complain ? Why drooping seek the dark recess ? Shake off the melancholy chain, For God created all to bless. But ah ! my breast is human still ; The rising sigh, the falling tear, My languid vitals' feeble rill, The sickness of my soul declare.
Page 607 - Rendered almost word for word without Rhyme according to the Latin Measure, as near as the Language will permit. WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden Hair, Plain in thy neatness?
Page 608 - WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden Hair, Plain in thy neatness? O 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, all Gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee ; of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vow'd Picture the sacred wall declares...
Page 619 - O 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 712 - I am settled, and in such a settlement as I would desire. I get four guineas a month by one Magazine: shall engage to write a History of England, and other pieces, which will more than double that sum.
Page 324 - 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 395 - The inequality of Chatterton's various productions may be compared to the disproportions of the ungrown giant. His works had nothing of the definite neatness of that precocious talent which stops short in early maturity His thirst for knowledge was that of a being taught by instinct to lay up materials for the exercise of great and undeveloped powers. Even in his...
Page 624 - To Barrett next, he has my thanks sincere, For all the little knowledge I had here. But what was knowledge ? Could it here succeed When scarcely twenty in the town can read ? Could knowledge bring in interest to maintain The wild expenses of a Poet's brain ; Disinterested Burgum never meant To take my knowledge for his gain per cent. When wildly...
Page 720 - But I have engaged to live with a gentleman, the brother of a Lord, (a Scotch one indeed,) who is going to advance pretty deeply into the bookselling branches ; I shall have...
Page 713 - Bristol an eternal fund of scandal, is here only introduced as a subject of taste ; if a man dresses well, he has taste ; if careless, he has his own reasons for so doing, and is prudent. Need I remind you of the contrast ? The poverty of authors is a common observation, but not always a true one. No author can be poor who understands the arts of booksellers. AVithout this necessary knowledge, the greatest genius may starve ; and •with it, the greatest dunce live in splendour. This knowledge I...