...contemporary poets, Coleridge and Southey. Wordsworth was born at Cockennouth, in 1770, the year of the death of Chatterton, — / '' The marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride." { He was educated first at Hawkshead. in Lancashire, and thereafter at St. John's College, in Cambridge...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride ; Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy Behind his plough upon the mountain side...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride ; Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy Behind his plough upon the mountain side...

...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all 1 I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of him...

...Civilization ? She offers to the generous youth her book, and her pen. What tales has she to recite of " 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's side." She evades no difficulty ; she invokes her followers...

...Civilization ? She offers to the generous youth her book, and her pen. What tales has she to recite of • the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in plory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain's side." She evades no difficulty ; she invokes...

...places to His and the world's work. The poor player, who became the immortal Shakspcare; the gifted Chatterton, the 'marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that perished in his pride ;' the noble-hearted Burns, who ' in glory and in joy followed his plough along the mountain side,'—arc...

...So it was but a chance and discordant mood that was meant in that noble stanza of Wordsworth : — " I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, — The...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...

...business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich iu genial good ; But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at bis call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all? § * Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals,...

...to-morrow morn." Lena remembered to have once heard her father reading aloud the story of the young poet, Chatterton — " The marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride." And her mother particularly drew her children's attention to the singular fact, that while the boybard...