The Life of Thomas Chatterton: Including His Unpublished Poems and CorrespondencePartridge & Oakey, 1851 - 213 страница |
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Страница 166 - 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 : without this necessary knowledge the greatest genius may starve, and with it the greatest dunce live in splendour. This knowledge I have pretty well dipped into.
Страница 71 - THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Страница 126 - Bids censure brand with infamy her name, I, even I, must think you are to blame. Is there a street within this spacious place That boasts the happiness of one fair face, Where conversation does not turn on you, Blaming your wild amours, your morals too, Oaths, sacred and tremendous oaths?
Страница 108 - ... by sound, The vicar slumbers, and the snore goes round ; Whilst Broderip at his passive organ groans Through all his slow variety of tones. How unlike Allen ! Allen is divine ! His touch is sentimental, tender, fine ; 170 No little affectations e'er disgraced His more refined, his sentimental taste : He keeps the passions with the sound in play, And the soul trembles with the trembling key.
Страница 169 - ... for publications, and going to places of public diversion, which is as absolutely necessary to me as food, I find but little time to write to you. As to Mr. Barrett, Mr. Catcott, Mr. Burgum, &c. &c. they rate literary lumber so low, that I believe an author, in their estimation, must be poor indeed ! But here, matters are otherwise ; had Rowley been a Londoner, instead of a Bristowyan, I could have lived by copying his works.
Страница 158 - 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.
Страница 133 - Your consequence in the council can arise only from your power over his— —; and that power you possess but by the courtesy of an unaccountable infatuation. Filial duty has nothing to do with the question ; a king has no mother, no wife, no friend, considered as a king; his country, his subjects, are the only objects of his public concern.
Страница 154 - I cannot afford to have a goodlabine to keep them in, I commonly give them to those who can. If you pick up any Roman, Saxon, English coins, or other antiques, even a sight of them would highly oblige me. When you quarter your arms in the mullet, say : Or, a Fess, Vert by the name of Chatterton. I trace your family from FitzStephen, son of Stephen, Earl of Ammerle, in 1095, son of Od, Earl of Blays, and Lord of Holderness. " I am, your very humble servant, "THOMAS CHATTERTON.
Страница 148 - Item. — If, after my death, which will happen to-morrow night before eight o'clock, being the Feast of the Resurrection, the coroner and jury bring it in lunacy, I will and direct that Paul Farr, Esq., and Mr. John Flower, at their joint expense, cause my body to be interred in the tomb of my fathers, and raise the monument over my body to the height of four feet five inches, placing the present flat stone on the top, and adding six tablets.
Страница 57 - If I can procure a copy, with or without the gratification, it shall be immediately sent to you. The motive that actuates me to do this is to convince the world that the monks (of whom some have so despicable an opinion) were not such blockheads as generally thought, and that good poetry might be wrote in the dark days of superstition, as well as in these more enlightened ages.