...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...

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...by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that...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...

...the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; n. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that...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...

...words Came to his lips in verse that shall not die. BRYANT. 13. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that...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...

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

...the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; ii. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that...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...

...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...

...the morning star of song, who made His music heard balow ; II. Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that...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...

...by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that...times of great Elizabeth "With sounds that echo still. Arid, for a while, the knowledge of his art Held me above the subject, as strong gales Hold swollen...