 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
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 páginas
...fashions and 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. TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771). — The immortal author of " Roderick Random " and " Peregrine... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 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. COLLINS. From Ode to Fear. [1747 O THO0, whose spirit most possess'd speare". The sacred seat of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 páginas
...estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying . . . . . . who, in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. AEENSIDE: Inscription for a Statue of Chaucer Thy genuine bards immortal Chaucer leads : His hoary... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 456 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...times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCON. A distinguished Spanish novelist, poet, and politician; born in Guadix, March... | |
 | 1901 - 654 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers, 0 Stranger, thou art come, Glowing with Churchill's...times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCON. A distinguished Spanish novelist, poet, and politician ; born in Guadix,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though [ perchance From Blenheim's towers, d day nor night ; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome To him, this other hero ; who in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tame the rudeness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's lowers, less herd of their Host thou applaud them, if thy breast be cold To him, this other hero ; who in times Dark and untaught,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...Bleinheim's towers, O stranger, thon art come Glowing with Churchill's trophies ; yet in vain Dost thon applaud them, if thy breast be cold To him, this other...charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land. — AKENSIDE, MARK, 1758, For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock. From what has been said I think we... | |
 | Anna Sheldon Camp Sneath - 1912 - 302 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. — MARK AKENSIDE (From) THE PROGRESS OF ENVY Not far from these,* Dan Chaucer, antient wight, A lofty... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 páginas
...o'er the entrails of a gnat.4 I recognize the graces of dignity and repose in the verses to Chaucer, who, in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tame the rudeness of his native land.5 Even though love's ardour is kept well under, I have read worse amatory songs than that to Arpasia.6... | |
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