...Algarsife And who had Canace to wife," — " Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Precluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still " : likenesses of manner such as the imitation of the smooth elegiac poets in Lycidas and CEnone. But...

...claim to be called " our first national artist." He did indeed " Prelude those melodious bursts which fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." But Chaucer was much in advance of his age, and before the national mind could enter into possession...

...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...Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. ALFRED TENNYSON: A Dream of Fair Women. TOPICAL STUDY OF CHAUCER'S LIFE. Birth and Parentage. — The circumstances...

...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...Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. ALFRED TENNYSON: A Dream of Fair Women. TOPICAL STUDY OF CHAUCER'S LIFE. Birth and Parentage. — The circumstances...

...literature. And to-day Tennyson, in his " Dream of Fair Women," thus gratefully repeats the praise of " Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded...times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still." But with the lengthening distance of the centuries, Chaucer asserts his affinity not only with the...

...star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breatli Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious...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...

...His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded thosemelodious bursts that fill The spacious 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...

...advanced a few steps beyond the threshold ol 1 Tennyson, \n his Dream of Fair Women, sings : ' I)an Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill Tint spacious times of great Elizabeth With Bounds that echo still.' — Ta. Us krt, but lie paused...

...world. His poetry reads like history." Tennyson speaks of him thus in his " Dream of Fair Women " :— " Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath...of great Elizabeth, With sounds that echo still." 10. JOHN BARBOUR (1316-1396).— The earliest Scottish poet of any importance in the fourteenth century...

...intellectual philosophers call the unknowable. " 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." Chaucer exhibits, in a high degree, this life of the spirit, and it is the secret of the charm which...