| Washington Irving - 1868 - 414 Seiten
...Church, and was shown the coffer in which poor Chatterton had pretended to find them. " This," said he, " is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has im'itten such things." As to Goldsmith. he persisted in his credulity, and had subequently a dispute... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1869 - 402 Seiten
...the poems, that was not his verdict as to their worth. When he did read them, his exclamation was : " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge !" But whatever plans Chatterton may have cherished for ultimately presenting Rowley to the world,... | |
| William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 Seiten
...Shakspeare, which appears not above once in many centuries. — Vicesimus Knox. Mad, /think. — Byron. This is the most extraordinary young man that has...is wonderful how the whelp has written such things. — -Johnson. The young-ey'd Poesy All deftly masked as hoar antiquity. — Coleridge. Sweet harper... | |
| John Dick (F.S.A.), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 238 Seiten
...generous and affectionate, and who hurt no living being. I can turn to Johnson, who said of him — " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge ;" — to Wharton, Malone, Scott, Campbell, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, — in fine, I can turn... | |
| Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 234 Seiten
...generous and affectionate, and who hurt no living being. I can turn to Johnson, who said of him — " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge ;" — to Wharton, Malone, Scott, Campbell, Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, — in fine, I can turn... | |
| Octave Delepierre - 1872 - 368 Seiten
...le plus grand poète qu'ait produit l'Angleterre depuis Shakespeare. Le docteur Johnson avoue que " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge." Coleridge, Wordsworth, et une foule d'autres auteurs exaltent la vigueur de son génie. A côté du... | |
| Octave Delepierre - 1872 - 342 Seiten
...le plus grand poète qu'ait produit l'Angleterre depuis Shakespeare. Le docteur Johnson avoue que " This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge." Coleridge, Wordsworth, et une foule d'autres auteurs exaltent la vigueur de son génie. A côté du... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 Seiten
...have heard Ошап, Oscar, and crcry one of them.' Johnson said of Chatterton, ' This is the moit extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such tilings.' We were by no means pleased with onr inn at Bristol. 'Lot us see now,' said I, 'how we should... | |
| David Masson - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...had no doubt of it, the works of the much older Bristol poet, Thomas Rowley, mysteriously preserved for three hundred years in the old chest in the muniment-room...still residing in Bristol with her sisters, a young womau of twenty-five, at the time of Chatterton's death, had, between that time and Dr. Johnson's visit... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...Sir? Pray what have you heard?" — "I have heard Ossian, Oscar, and every one of them." Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol. " Let us see now, (said I,) how we should describe... | |
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