 Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit...  Poems - Page 288by Hartley Coleridge - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...verses worth, though not my own. Long had, our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...ACCOUNT OF THE GREATEST EXCLJSH POETS. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard,...But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language,and obscur'dhis wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...verses worth, though not my OBT.. Long bad our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. Hut age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jests... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; Till Chaucer first, a m'Try bard, arose, And mnnv a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Mrorn out his language, and obseor'd his wit: In rain lie jests in his unpolish'd strain, And trice... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...their verses worth, tho' not my own. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; 'Till Chaucer first, a merry...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 318 pages
...verses worth, though not my own. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 532 pages
...their verses worth, tho' not my own. Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine ; 'Till Chaucer first, a merry...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1840 - 298 pages
...Oifvrd edition, vol. vii. p. 422. I Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1830 - 294 pages
...forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful nine ; Till Chaucer first, a merry hard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But...rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...GOWER, One of our most ancient English, Poets, contemporary with Chaucer, and his intimate friend. "But age has rusted what the Poet writ, Worn out his...language, and obscured his wit ; In vain he jests in his unpolished strain, And tries to make his readers laugh, in vain." Of what family, or in what county... | |
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