 | 1829 - 488 pages
...made by forcing and injudicious admiration. In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so...and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement. " She composed with great rapidity ; as fast as most persons usually copy. There are several instances... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...made by forcing and injudicious admiration. In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so...and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement. ' She composed with great rapidity ; as fast as most persons usually copy. There are several instances... | |
 | 1829 - 590 pages
...admiration. In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mmd no instance of so early, so ardent, and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement. ' She composed with great rapidity ; as fast as most persons usually copy. There are several instances... | |
 | William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...terly review for 1829. The writer says, " In our own language, 'except in the cases of Chatterton, and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so early, •o ardent, and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement." By the early death of a person of... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 510 pages
...traces of a wasting frame, and a dejected spirit feeling tlie fatal approaches of death. We know of no instance of so early, so ardent, and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement, except in tlie cases ot Cliatterton and Kirke White. In October, 1824, a gentleman, who was informed... | |
 | Fashion - 738 pages
...remains, in the "Quarterly Review," that, "in our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so...and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement." Yet with all this unquenchable thirst for knowledge— ibis devotion to the mental " Excelsior"—... | |
 | Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1843 - 346 pages
...exertion and display of her gift of verse. " In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so...a pursuit of intellectual advancement." " " ' Her desire of knowledge increased as she grew more capable of appreciating its worth ;' and she appreciated... | |
 | Handbook - 1843 - 98 pages
...LUCEETIA DAVIDSON'S REMAINS, Collected and arranged by her Mother : With a Biography, by Miss SBDGWICK. " We can call to mind no instance of so early, so ardent,...and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement, except in the case of Chatterton and Kirke White."— QUARTERLY REVIEW. "The Life of Margaret Davidson... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...genius. Except the cases of Chatterton awl Henry Kirke White, iie thinks there i» no instance on record of " so early, so ardent, and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancemeat," as is exhibited in the history of this young lady. " In these poems, there is enough... | |
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In our own language, except in the cases of Chatterton and Kirke White, we can call to mind no instance of so early, so ardent, and so fatal a pursuit of intellectual advancement. 
