 | Pickering & Chatto - 1659 - 104 pages
...his praise of Shakespeare is tame in comparison with the following, his enthusiasm for Spenser : — "'Grave morrall Spencer after these came on Then whom I am perswaded there was none Since the blind Sard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a taske like that a undertake, To set down boldly, bravely to invent.... | |
 | 1793 - 810 pages
...before them to have buried been. Grave moral Spencer after thefe came on, Than whom I am perfuailed there was none Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, H-tcr i talk like that to undertake, To fet down boldly, biavely to invent, in all high knowledge,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...jewel of their coronet. — Gibbon. Grave moral SPENSER after these came on, Than whom I am persuaded there was none, Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that to undertake ; To set down boldly, bravely to invent, In all our knowledge surely excellent.... | |
 | Michael Drayton - English poetry - 1883 - 240 pages
...: had they Liv"d but a little longer, they had seene Their workes before them to have buried beene. Grave morrall Spencer after these came on, Then whom...to invent, In all high knowledge surely excellent The noble Sidney with this last arose, That Heroe for numbers and for Prose ; That throughly pac'd... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...pride's aspiring. — GILES FLETCHER. Grave, moral Spenser after these came on, Than whom I am persuaded there was none, Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that to undertake ; To set down boldly, bravely to invent, In all our knowledge surely excellent.... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
...those of thy device. SIR WALTER RALEIGH: Sonnet V. Grave moral Spenser . . . Than whom I am persuaded there was none Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that to undertake, To set down boldly, bravely to invent, In all high knowledge, surely excellent.... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...them to have buried been. Spenser. Grave moral Spenser after these came on, Than whom I am persuaded there was none, Since the blind bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that to undertake; To set down boldly, bravely to invent, In all high knowledge surely excellent.... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...before them to have buried been ! Grave moral SPENSER, after these came on : Than whom, I am persuaded, there was none, Since the blind Bard, his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that, to undertake ; To set down boldly ! bravely to invent ! In all high knowledge, surely,... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1905 - 254 pages
...excellent,' and awarded him a kind of Homeric scope for the bravery of his invention : I am persuaded there was none Since the blind bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a task like that to undertake. 1 And this loyalty, filial, not servile, had its reward when Drayton began... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1906 - 594 pages
...Smith, " Elizabethan Critical Essays," vol. ii. p. 316. 3 Grave morall Spencer after these came on Than whom I am perswaded there was none, Since the blind...up did make, Fitter a taske like that to undertake. Epistle to Reynolds, " Of Poets and Poesie." 4 "Returne from Pernassus," 2nd part, act i. sc. 2, 1606;... | |
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Grave morrall Spencer after these came on Then whom I am perswaded there was none Since the blind Bard his Iliads up did make, Fitter a taske like that to undertake, To set downe boldly, bravely to invent, In all high knowledge, surely excellent. 
