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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. "
The Antiquary - Page 176
edited by - 1881
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Lectures on English poetry

Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 pages
...among our Poets ; and he has himself alluded to that fact with a proud and pardonable egotism : — " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the Second English Satirist." His Satires, besides their own intrinsic Poetical excellencies, are valuable to the Antiquary as presenting...
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Cathedral Antiquities: Hereford. 1831. Exeter. 1826

John Britton - 1831 - 328 pages
...time. from the following opening lines to his " Virgiderniarum," published in 1597, and 1598. " I 6rst adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps...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." Having entered...
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The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...first of our satirical poets. He introduces his celebrated work, " Virgidemiarum," with these lines "I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist.' Page 85. Prudentius. t Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a Christian poet of the fourth century,...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

1832 - 336 pages
...first of our satirical poets. He introduces his celebrated work, " Virgidemiarum," with these lines "I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist.' Page 85. Prudentius. Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a Christian poet of the fourth century,...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 1

Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 pages
...Donne. But if Hall was second in point of time, he was first in merit. So much elegance of thought, en* I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satyqst. — Prolog, to Sat. t Poetical Decameron, -vol. i., p. 155. Mr. Collier founds the claim of...
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The National Library of Universal Entertainment & Instruction: Illustrated ...

1835 - 384 pages
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Wells, Exeter, and Worcester

John Britton - 1836 - 442 pages
...First's time. from the following opening lines to his " Virgideraiarum," published in 1597, and 1598. " I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread...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." Having entered...
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Satires, and Other Poems

Joseph Hall - 1838 - 176 pages
...cornibus ! Euge Monstra novi monstri haec, et satyri et satyrae. feks^^c^sc^ J\ * t_'BOOK I. PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread...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 margent...
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Satires, and Other Poems

Joseph Hall - 1838 - 188 pages
...satyram : satyrum sine cornibus ! Euge Monstra novi monstri ha,c, et satyri et satyrs. BOOK I. PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread...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 margent...
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Satires, and Other Poems

Joseph Hall - 1838 - 190 pages
...Ecce novam satyram : satyrum sine cornibus ! Euge Monstra novi monstri haec, et satyri et satyrae. adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps...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 margent...
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