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Chatterton, Ossian, Africa.(Thomas Chatterton)(Critical essay)
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Two quotations from the late works of Thomas Chatterton:
On Tiber's banks, where scarlet jasmines bloom,
And purple aloes shed a rich perfume:
Where, when the sun is melting in his heat.
The reeking tygers find a cool retreat;
Bask in the sedges, lose the sultry beam,
And wanton with their shadows in the stream.
("The Death of Nicou" [1770]) (1)
The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle; The forswat
meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;
The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,
And the full flockes are drivynge ore the ...
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