 | Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 220 pages
...spent about its polishing than it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be then discovered that, while poets had been singing so sweetly, and speaking so clearly and well, the... | |
 | English language - 1917 - 220 pages
...spent about its polishing than it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be then discovered that, while poets had been singing so sweetly, and speaking so clearly and well, the... | |
 | David Norton - Bibles - 2000 - 526 pages
...spent about its polishing than it deserves. Till the time iif King Henry the Eighth there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his poetry. But then it began to raise itself a little and to sound tolerably well. From... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...'Till the time of Ki«g Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded [the English language]... but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry.' 1 This exact point is reiterated by John Dennis in The Usefulness of the Stage... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...spent about its polishing than it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice, but some of his poetry. But then it began to raise itself a little, and to sound tolerably well. From... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 pages
...spent about it's polishing, then it deserves. Till the tune of King Henry the Eiyhth, there was scarce any man regarded it, but Chaucer ; and nothing was...in it, -which one would be willing to read twice, but some of his Poetry. Bat then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well. 1668.... | |
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The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing... 
