...coarse but vigorous satires were the work of his early life, and thus he writes concerning them — "I first adventure, with foolhardy might, To tread the...adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." ripe age and growing families devoured by the pangs of love, and devoting themselves to...

...classical satirist. " 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. ****#* Go, daring muse, on with thy thankless task, And do the ugly face of Vice unmask."...

...classical satirist. " 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. •**•** Go, daring muse, on with thy thankless task, And do the ugly face of Vice unmask."...

...by exclaiming — " I first adventure, with foolhardy might, To tread the stops of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." But lie had chiefly in view, when he wrote that, his rival John Marstoii, who was ready...

...scholarship), were published in.1597 ; and in the prologue he claims to be the first practiser of the art:— I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." In the following year appeared three more books; those called " biting satires." The general...

...The first of these in the order of merit, as he claimed to be in order of time, was Joseph Hall: " I first adventure — follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." His satires were about contemporary, in composition and publication, with the Merchant of...

...5.30 PM SECTION 5. English. VII. DRYDEN, POPE, JOHNSON. [Nine questions only are to be attempted.] 1. I first adventure, follow me, who list, And be the second English satirist. Who said this, and with what amount of truth ? Trace the development of rhymed satires in...

...and given many suggestive hints. In his prologue, Hall claims to be the first English satirist : " I first adventure with foolhardy might To tread the...adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satirist." The claim has been hotly contested, and, if its justice is to stand or fall with the date...

...Gascoigne to precedence, he was the earliest that English literature can boast. In hia 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...

...classical satire into England. In the prologue to the first book of Virgidemia:, 1597, he writes : — " I first adventure with foolhardy might To tread the...adventure : follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." It matters little whether Hall's claim was well-founded or not ; but it has been often pointed...