 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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 man that has encountered my knowledge. It ia wonderful how the whelp has written such things." We were by no means pleased with our inn at Bristol.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 Seiten
...shred of credit from Chatterton, reveal the actual value and beauty of his poetry. As Johnson said, " This is the most extraordinary young man that has...knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such tilings." § 8. An even more famous and certainly more subtle case of literary forgery are the Ossianic... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 502 Seiten
...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 man that has encountered my knowlege. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things." We were by no means pleased with... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1902 - 484 Seiten
...who has waded through this sea of swash there will occur the words of Doctor Johnson concerning young Chatterton, 'This is the most extraordinary young...wonderful how the whelp has written such things.' CHAPTER III THE BOOK OF MORMON : THE DOCUMENTS . CHAPTER III THE BOOK OF MORMON: THE DOCUMENTS THE... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 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 ivomderful how the wlidp has written such things" As to Goldsmith, lie persisted in his credulity,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 Seiten
...Church, and was shown the coffer in which poor Chattertou had pretended to find them. " This," said he, " is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how 5 the whelp lias written such things." J As to Goldsmith, he persisted*™ his credulity, and had subsequently... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Arthur Ransome - 1907 - 360 Seiten
...even to dying, like poor Chatterton,* in order to make both ends meet. Of him Johnson could say, " This is the most extraordinary young man that has...wonderful how the whelp has written such things," and yet, after three months' fight among the papers, living on almost nothing, and writing home to... | |
 | Stanley Peerman Hutton - 1907 - 532 Seiten
...of eighteenth-century literature marvel at his powers, and exclaim on visiting Bristol in 1776 : " This is the most extraordinary young man that has...wonderful how the whelp has written such things." * Dr. Johnson. 4 A Though scorned and neglected during his life, Chatterton has bequeathed a legacy... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 Seiten
...career of a new Chatter ton.— BESANT, WALTER, 1898, The Pen and the Book, p. 23. GENERAL Johnson said of Chatterton, " This is the most extraordinary young...is wonderful how the whelp has written such things. "—JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1776, Life by Boswell, ed. Hill, vol. HI, p. 59. I think poor Chatterton was an... | |
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This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things. 
