 In praising, though the praiser sit alone And see the praised far off him, far above. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our...  The Leisure Hour - Page 3981883Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...time when " none would hear his singing." He says that in " modern times : " — No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. In saying this Landor anticipated by half a lifetime the verdict which a later generation has passed... | |
 | 1845 - 1072 pages
...Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech ; and short for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing ; the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...Shakspeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech, and short for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our road with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. LANDOR. 43. He whose... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pages
...on him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1853 - 750 pages
...companionable habits are proverbial, and he never walks from home without a friend at his side : " Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our streets With step so active, so inquiring eye, Or tongue so varied in discourse." In alluding to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...often quoted comparison of Browning with Chaucer is a piece of perfect and essential criticism :— Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. For Browning was a portrait-painter by genius and a philosopher only by accident. He was a historian... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1861 - 790 pages
...with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free heart, free forehead." " Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked...inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse." But Shakspeare is the exponent of the English language in its ripe manhood. We need not try to point... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 394 pages
...on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath waikt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest with,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest... | |
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