...Virgidemiarum, Book I., " I first adventure with fool-hardy might To tread the steps of perilous despight ; I first adventure, follow me who list, , And be the second English Satirist" — may, with much truth and propriety, be said to have been accepted by Wither. The Bishop...

...SENECA. Critic, Orator, are not yet explained, according to their new interpretations, though we have " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist." This assertion of the Poet is not strictly true ; for there were various satyrical writings...

...I. » PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure1, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist. Envy wayts on my backe, Truth on my side : Envy will be my page, and truth my guide. Envy...

...Oxford, in 1753, 8vo. In the prologue he calls himself the first satirist in the English language. " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." The work is divided into six books, the first three called toothless satires ; practical...

...I. 1 \ PROLOGUE. I ratrr 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. Envy waits on my back, Truth on my side; Envy will be my page, and Truth my guide. Envy the...

...English Satyrist: In the first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight, I first adventure, follow me who list, / And be the second English satyrist. For as Scotland had its Lindsay, so had England its Pierce Ploughman, whose Visions are certainly...

...satires in six books:" And calls himself in the prologue, the first satirist in the English language: " I first adventure, follow me who list, " And be the second English satirist." The three first books are called Toothless Satires: poetical, academical, moral. The three...

...satires in six books:" And calls himself in the prologue, the first satirist in the English language : " I first adventure, follow me who list, " And be the second English satirist." The three first books are called Toothless Satires : poetical, academical, moral. The three...

...unknown to Bishop Hall, who publishing his Satires fifty years afterwards, ventured roundly to assert, " I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist." which is the more extraordinary, as it is evident that Hall had paid particular attention...

...Satires he says — I first adventure with fool hardy might, To thread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist. Hall's Prologue to Book 3, implies his knowledge of former Satirists. " Some say my Satyrs...