Thomas Chatterton: Man

Thomas Chatterton was English poet, forger. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Thomas Chatterton: 28 quotes3 likes

“This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things.”

Thomas Chatterton

Samuel Johnson, April 29, 1776; reported by James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 752.
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“Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,
Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:
Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,
Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side.”

Thomas Chatterton

"The Defence", line 23.

“He was an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age.”

Thomas Chatterton

Horace Walpole, letter to William Mason dated July 24, 1778; published in Horace Walpole (ed. William Hadley) Selected Letters (London: Everyman's Library, 1963) p. 191.
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