...of self-improvement were never again thus voluntarily lost. Passing from the illustrious names — ' That fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still,' he became familiar in the same way with most of the poets and novelists of the later stages of English...

...Legend of Good Women" long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; n. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. in. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen...

..." Legend of Good Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And for a while the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen clouds...

...Legend of Good Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; n. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen...

...heaven, Into its mirror. Then the flowing words Came to his lips in verse that shall not die. BRYANT. 13. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth, With sounds that echo still. TENNYSON. 14. Poet of the charmed lay, Singing Hope in numbers sweet,* Let a lowly minstrel lay One...

...Legend of Good Women" long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; ii. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. in. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales IV. Charged...

...— none were more so than the Father of our English Poetry — " ' Ban Chaucer ! the first warhler whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts...of great Elizabeth, With sounds that echo still." " Chaucer seems to have had a constant struggle between his genial, tender, hearty appreciation of...

...reception. This and all of his earliest and best productions were part of " Those melodious bursts which fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." And the Virgin Queen's honouring the performance with her presence called forth from the grateful poet...

...Legend of Good Women" long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard balow ; II. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. in. And, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales IT. Charged...

...inspired or heavenbom in the strains so Sung by the Morning Star of song, who made His music heard below : Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.* Gladly we suppose with Charles Knight that Shakspeare was the pupil of Chaucer, and that the " fine...