Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770 . n most adults, that his mentalprocesses were surer and quicker. He could thinkand most of them could not. But they had thestronger physical force and could beat him fct willand make him waste his precious hours in grindingthe sand of commercial arithmetic and copying thedull lawyers dull precedents. And they would notsee that he could do anything else, that there wasin him the fire of great achievement. From theseeds of such conditions the growth that came isthe last that should astonish reasonable men. He had, not l
Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770 . n most adults, that his mentalprocesses were surer and quicker. He could thinkand most of them could not. But they had thestronger physical force and could beat him fct willand make him waste his precious hours in grindingthe sand of commercial arithmetic and copying thedull lawyers dull precedents. And they would notsee that he could do anything else, that there wasin him the fire of great achievement. From theseeds of such conditions the growth that came isthe last that should astonish reasonable men. He had, not long after the incident of the Warnerletter, a chance to amuse himself at the expense ofhis tormentors, and availed of it in a way quitenatural to the consciously superior mind. The prin-cipal crossing in the harbor is and has been for cen-turies known as Bristol Bridge. When Chattertonwas born this- was that ancient stone structurehaving houses on each side to which I have beforereferred. Age having impaired the old bridge theauthorities in 1768 replaced it. The new bridge. THE TRADE OF A SCRIVENER 65 was opened to foot passengers in September andcompleted two months later. While the subject stilloccupied the minds of the citizens, those that readFelix Farleys Bristol Journal, were astonished oneday to find printed there what purported to bean authentic account, taken from an ancient manu-script, of the ceremonies that three hundred yearsbefore had marked the opening of the old account, which would make about one third of acolumn in a modern newspaper, was most circum-stantial and full of minute detail. It was writtenin what was accepted by the scholarship of thatday as veritable old English. On Fridaie, it began, was the time fixed forpassing the newe Brydge: Aboute the time ofthe tollynge the tenth Clock, Master GreggorieDalbenye mounted on a Fergreyne Horse, enformedMaster Mayor all thyngs were prepared; whan twoBeadils want fyrst streyng fresh stre, next came ama
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