 | Mark Akenside - 1880 - 792 pages
...AT WOODSTOCK. St-'CH was old Chaucer ; such the placid mii-n Of him who first with harmony inlbrm'cl The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood,... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1880 - 792 pages
...many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while .his legends blithe He sang ; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life : through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...FOB A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK. SUCH was old Chaucer: such the placid' mien Of him who first rid These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...at Wooditock. Such was old Chaucer : such the placid mien Ot him who first with harmony informed Thf language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him. while his legends blithe He sang ; of love, or knighthood,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Berkshire (England) - 1882 - 406 pages
...many a cheerful day. These ancient walla Have ölten heard him, while bis legends blithe He sang ; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life : through each estate and age The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...for a statue of Chaucer at Woodstock. " Such was old Chaucer ; such the placid mien Of him who first with harmony inform'd The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blythe He sung : of love, or knighthood,... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...CHAUCER, AT WOODSTOCK. SUCH was old Chaucer. Such the placid mien Of him who first with harmony infonn'd The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe 5 He sang; of love, or knighthood,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blythe He sung : of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life ; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK. Such was old Chaucer: such the placid mien Of him who first with harmony informed The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love or knighthood,... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...He loathed much to write, ne cared to repeat. AKENSIDE. For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock. [1758 The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These anc1ent walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood,... | |
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The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies... 
