I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. Temple Bar - 第 90 頁1861完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 頁
...first of our satirical poets. He introduces his celebrated work, " Virgidemiarum" with these lines " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satirist." t Dr. Bryan Duppa was born at Lewisharn, March, 10th, 1588, and educated at Westminster, whence he... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 頁
...whose pen, and in which of his works, have we a striking description of Bacon as an orator ? 40. " I first adventure : follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." Who was the writer of this couplet ? 41. The claim Hall makes in these words appears to he unfounded... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 384 頁
...Gascoigne to precedence, he was the earliest that English literature can boast. In his own words, " I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." He had two qualifications for his chosen task, — penetrating observation and unshrinking courage.... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1871 - 664 頁
...to comparative originality ;§ for he had put in the same claim also in behalf of his Satires: — " I first adventure — follow me who list — And be the second English satirist. "II The Epistles were speedily followed by a succession of Polemical Treatises. Not that he had any... | |
| 1871 - 908 頁
...1574. He, indeed, claims to himself the honour of being the father of the tribe ; for he says : — I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. YY a His compositions of this class he divided into two parts, calling the first " toothless satires,"... | |
| Joseph Meadows Cowper - 1871 - 224 頁
...these lines : — " I first adventure, with fool-hardy might To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satirist." But Hall was hardly correct in his assertion that he was the first to adventure in this perilous path,... | |
| Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 頁
...believed himself to be the first English satirist. " I first adventure," he said in his prologue — " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist" The mistake is of no consequence. Hall's satires are in rhyming couplets of ten-syllabled lines ; he thought... | |
| William Minto - 1874 - 518 頁
...productions of the kind in English, and their date disposes at once of Joseph Hall's conceited boast — " I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist." But priority is their chief merit : they are colourless imitations of Horace. Marston is the first... | |
| Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 256 頁
...his Satires, and in his prologue, oblivious of Lodge, claimed to be the first writer of this kind : " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." In the controversy about priority between Hall and Marston, no one ever thought of pleading Lodge's... | |
| William Minto - 1874 - 506 頁
...productions of the kind in English, and their date disposes at once of Joseph Hall's conceited boast— " I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist." But priority is their chief merit: they are colourless imitations of Horace. Marston is the first real... | |
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