 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...long and distinguished line of satiric poets: — " I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And he the second English satirist." The prologue to the satires is a stately porch to the main building,... | |
 | 1865 - 496 pages
...the first who devoted himself to this kind of composition ; we have Ms own authority for it, — " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." And in them he is very severe, directing his weapon at the prostitution of the Muse to lewd... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pages
...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,... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 908 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Meadows Cowper - 1871 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1871 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...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... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 272 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
