 For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying....  Brookiana - Página 511804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 páginas
...With cunning band portraying. Though per chance From Blenheim's towers, O stranger, thou art come 10 Glowing with CHURCHILL'S trophies; yet in vain Dost...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. 15 III. W HOE'ER thou «rt whose path in summer lies Through yonder village, turn thee where the grove... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 506 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand pourtraying. Tho' perchance From Blenheim's tow'rs, O stranger ! thou art come, Glowing with Churchill's...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. SONNET TO CHAUCER. ENGLISH CHAUCEK ! oft to thy glory old — Thy sire-ship in poesy, thy fame, Dull'd... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1841 - 486 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand pourtraying. Tho' perchance From Blenheim's tow'rs, 0 stranger ! thou art come, Glowing with Churchill's...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. SONNET TO CHAUCER. ENGLISH CHAUCEB ! oft to thy glory old — Thy sire-ship in poesy, thy fame, Dull'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...From Blenheim's towers, О stranger, thou art como Glowing with Churchill's trophies ; yet in vaiu stars were dim, laud. LORD LYTTELTOÍÍ. As a poet, LVTTEI.TOX might escape remembrance, but he comes before us as... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1845 - 364 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers, O stranger, thou art come Glowing with Churchill's...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. III. WHOE'ER thou art whose path in summer lies Thro' yonder village, turn thee where the grove Of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...pourtraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers, O stranger ! thou art come Glowing with Churchill's3 trophies, yet in vain Dost thou applaud them, if thy...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. Ahenside. VI. FOR A NATURAL GROTTO NEAR A DEEP STREAM. HEAI.TH, rose-lipped cherub, haunts this spot... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 páginas
...but the brave, the courteous and highminded could enter. Chaucer, quaint and sweet old Chaucer, he who in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land," describes one of these knights, in language which proves that we have overestimated, neither the influence... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 330 páginas
...which compelled him to struggle with a barbarous language and a national want of taste.'" That he " In times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land ;" AKENSIDE. and that his efforts first constructed a taste by which he and all subsequent poets were... | |
 | 1848 - 936 páginas
...cold in death, but his " Reliques bear a charmed life, And speak though he be silent." Praise then the hero, " who in times Dark and untaught, began with...charming verse, To tame the rudeness of his native land." » « JK. THE GREAT. I saw a harnessed war-horse prance ; I saw a war-chiefs lordly glance ; And the... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 páginas
...the follies of the world, With cunning hand pourtrjfing. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers, < > stranger, thou art come, Glowing with Churchill's...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. MOURNFUL PLEASURES. Ask the faithful youth, "Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved, So often fills... | |
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