 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pages
...Monstra novi monstri hsec ; et Satyri et Satyrae. VIRGIDEMIARUM. LIB. I. » PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure1, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 504 pages
...cornibus ! Euge Monstra novi monstri luec ; et Satyri et Satyra;. VIRGIDEMIARUM.' LIB. I. PROLOGUE. 1 FIRST adventure ', with fool-hardy might, To tread...the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, fojlpw me who list, And be the second English Satyrist. Envy wayts on my backe, Truth on my side :... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...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 academical,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...new undertaking. The laurel which he sought had been unworn, and it was not to be won without hazard. I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread...perilous despight: I first adventure, follow me who lift, And be the second English satirist. His first book, containing nine Satires, is aimed at the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...asserts, in the Prologue, the first satirist in the English language. ..... . . • • • . ' . s ' I first adventure, follow me who list, , ! . >• And be the second English satyrist. . . : . " And it" we consider the difficulty of introducing so nice a poem as satire into... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...took the precedency of Bonne. But Hall was hasty in calling himself the first English Satyrist: In the first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the...adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satyrist. Tor as Scotland had its Lindsay, so had England its Pierce Ploughman, whose Visions are certainly... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - Christian biography - 1816 - 596 pages
...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 last, Biting... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 552 pages
...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 last, Biting... | |
 | William Davis - Bibliomania - 1821 - 776 pages
...thus in the Prologue to his 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... | |
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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. 
