 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...  The Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison - Page 37by Joseph Addison - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...voice. 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 obseur'd his wit : In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 596 pages
...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...raptures of the tuneful Nine ; Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pages
...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 the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; 10 Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, 11 And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1868 - 354 pages
...the language — as one the "whole significance of whose antiquated verse has for ever past away : '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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1868 - 348 pages
...the language — as one the whole significance of whose antiquated verse has for ever past away : ' 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1870 - 352 pages
...the language — as one the whole significance of whose antiquated verse has for ever passed away: ' 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 Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...Greatest English Poets," says of Chaucer, in exact accordance with the third line of Jackson's epigram : But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obseur'd his wit. FRAXgOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE. Bom 1694. Died 1778. TO LAURA HARLEY, 1727. ("... | |
 | Henry Trueman Wood - Comparative literature - 1870 - 76 pages
...omitting the name of Shakspeare, speaking of Chaucer and Spenser in such terms as these : — " Old 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... | |
 | Cambridge (England) - 1874 - 776 pages
...Discebamus enim pueri xil, ut carmen neccssarium: quas iam nemo discit.' Cicero, dt Legibus, II. xxm. 59.' ' 'Till Chaucer first a merry bard arose, And many a...rusted what the poet Writ, Worn out his language and obscurVl his wit. from the imitative character of the composition of the Flavian period : and such... | |
 | Cambridge (England) - 1874 - 772 pages
...cnim pueri xri, ut carmen necessarium: quas iam nemo discit.' Cicero, ch Lfgibtts, II. XXIII. 59.1 'Till Chaucer first a merry bard arose, • And many a story told in rhyme and prose: Hut age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language arid • obscur'd his wit. from the imitative... | |
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