 | 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 previously... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pages
...et Satyrae. VIRGIDEMIARUM. LIB. I. » PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure1, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I first 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 the margent... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...I. 1 \ PROLOGUE. I ratrr 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. Envy waits on my back, Truth on my side; Envy will be my page, and Truth my guide. Envy the... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...calling himself the first English Satyrist: In the first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight, I first 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 strong... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British autography - 1819 - 400 pages
...Park, Leicestershire, and educated at Cambridge. During his youth he was a wit and a poet •• 1 first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satyrist. His first presentation was the Rectory of Halsted, in Suffolk ; the next Waltham Abbey, in Essex ;... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...unknown to Bishop Hall, who publishing his Satires fifty years afterwards, ventured roundly to assert, " I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist." which is the more extraordinary, as it is evident that Hall had paid particular attention... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 298 pages
...rise, if not with the publication of Hall, at least in his iime. He boldly claims the precedence — I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. But he was certainly anticipated by Thomas Lodge, whose Fig for Momus, published in 1593,... | |
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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. 
