| John Dennis - 1883 - 424 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 páginas
...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."... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 páginas
...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."... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 páginas
...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... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1884 - 338 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1884 - 480 páginas
...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... | |
| Oxford univ, local exams - 1885 - 358 páginas
...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... | |
| George Lewis - 1886 - 474 páginas
...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... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 382 páginas
...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... | |
| John Marston - 1887 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
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