 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 oldal
...production, from which I make a few extracts to show once more the manner of thought current at the time : " Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured hia wit ; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 oldal
...school. Shakespeare is not mentioned : Dryden and Congreve are the great dramatists. As for Chaucer, " Age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured his wit ; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 530 oldal
...rymed epistle which Addison addressed to Sacheverell. It was in this way that he spoke of Chaucer: " Long had our dull forefathers slept supine. Nor felt...first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in ryme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured .his wit... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 oldal
...raptures of the tuneful Nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in 1yme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured his wit : In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 1126 oldal
...French school, and followed the polite taste of the day. Of Chaucer he said that he was " a merry bard," But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obicur'd hu wit i In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 oldal
...strength, I'll try to make their several beauties known, And show their verses' worth, though not my own. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, Chaucer. And many a story told in rime and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 oldal
...strength, I'll try to make their sevral Beauties known; And show their verses worth, though not my own. LONG had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...rusted what the Poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscured his wit. In vain, he jests in his unpolished strain; And tries to make his Readers laugh,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 338 oldal
...strength, I'll try to make their sevral Beauties known; And show their verses worth, though not my own. LONG had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...rusted what the Poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscured his wit. In vain, he jests in his unpolished strain; And tries to make his Readers laugh,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 808 oldal
...accustomed to poetical discipline. — KYMER, THOMAS, 161J3, A Short View of the Tragedy of the Last Age. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured his wit ; In vain he jests in his nnpolish'd strain And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Richard Brathwaite - 1901 - 168 oldal
...startling judgment delivered in 1694, in his Account o/ the Greatest English Poets ; where he says : " Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in ryme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured his wit :... | |
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I'll try to make their several beauties known, And show their verses worth tho' not my own. .Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine, Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme... 
