Women,' long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. The North British Review - Стр. 1541864Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - Страниц: 136
...music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. 57 And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen... | |
| 1884 - Страниц: 668
...to wife," — " Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Precluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still " : likenesses of manner such as the imitation of the smooth elegiac poets in Lycidas and CEnone. But... | |
| Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - Страниц: 312
...music heard below. Dan Chaucer, the first, warbler whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.' It is fitly said that Chaucer's song ' preluded ' that of SHAKESPEARE; for, after Chaucer none like... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - Страниц: 340
...music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen... | |
| Ellen Crofts - 1884 - Страниц: 394
...claim to be called " our first national artist." He did indeed " Prelude those melodious bursts which fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." But Chaucer was much in advance of his age, and before the national mind could enter into possession of... | |
| 1885 - Страниц: 492
...repeats the praise of " Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." But with the lengthening distance of the centuries, Chaucer asserts his affinity not only with the poets... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Страниц: 728
...music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. ALFRED TENNYSON: A Dream of Fair Women. TOPICAL STUDY OF CHAUCER'S LIFE. Birth and Parentage. — The... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - Страниц: 302
...music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breatli Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - Страниц: 526
...music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded thosemelodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - Страниц: 428
...Fair Women " :— " Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth, With sounds that echo still." 10. JOHN BARBOUR (1316-1396).— The earliest Scottish poet of any importance in the fourteenth century... | |
| |