 | Richard Brathwaite - 1901 - 124 oldal
...raptures of the tuneful Nine Till Chaucer 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 : In vain he jests, in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 oldal
...strength, j"ll try to make their several beauties known, And show their verses worth, though not my own. Long had our dull fore-fathers slept supine, , Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; 10 'Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rime, and prose. But age has... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 oldal
...the tuneful Nine ; 10 'Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rime, and But age has rusted what the poet writ, ^ Worn out his language, and obscured his wifl: In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, 15 And tries to make his readers laugh... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 oldal
...I'm alive to tell you so. 88 JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) FEOK AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREATEST ENGLISH POETS Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; 10 Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 oldal
...our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the'raptures of the timeful Nine; Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. JOSEPH ADDISON 219 l what the poet writ, lis language, and obscured his wit ; jests in his unpolished... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 oldal
...pleasures, seldom reached, again pursued. JOSEPH ADDISON FROM AX ACCOUNT OF THE GREATEST ENGLISH POETS Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, 5 Worn out his language, and obscured his wit; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 oldal
...strength, 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...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... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - 1909 - 62 oldal
...after he wrote it.' Of Chaucer, Addison knows that he was ' a merry bard ' who wrote many a story. 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 hearers laugh in... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 oldal
...accustomed to poetical discipline. — RYMER, THOMAS, 1693, A Short View of the Tragedy of the Last Age. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt...many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has nisted what the poet writ, Worn out his language and obscured his wit ; In vain he jests in his unpolish'd... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 oldal
...known, And show their verses worth, tho' not my own. Long had our dull fore-fathers slept supine, 10 Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; 'Till Chaucer...first, a merry Bard, arose, And many a story told in rhime, 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... 
