 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 542 pages
...the hands of the reader) interfered with the immediate recognition of his supremacy. The Faery Queen became at once the delight of every accomplished gentleman,...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits derived from chivalry, and the change both of taste and language, which came... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 352 pages
...Aristotle's elegant lines he ever wrote: — Poetics, p. 14. . Candidior nivibus, frigidinrque manus. every accomplished gentleman, the model of every poet,...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits derived from chivalry, and the change both of taste and language, which came... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...accomplished writer of the present day in England. " The admiration of this great poem," says Mr. Hallam,* speaking of the " Faerie Queene," " was unanimous...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits derived from chivalry, and the change, both of taste and language, which came... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...accomplished writer of the present day in England. " The admiration of this great poem," says Mr. Hallam,* speaking of the " Faerie Queene," " was unanimous...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits derived from chivalry, and the change, both of taste and language, which came... | |
 | Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew - 1841 - 622 pages
...minute cavilling ; no recent macy. The " Faery Queen" became at once the delight of every accompli* gentleman, the model of every poet, the solace of...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits, derived from chivalry, and the change, both of taste and language, which... | |
 | 1840 - 720 pages
...hands of the reader) interfered with the immediate recognition of his supremacy. The ' Faery Queen' became at once the delight of every accomplished gentleman,...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits, derived from chivalry, and the change, both of taste and language, which... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...zenith, and scarcely paled its fires when Shakspeare's followed it. " The Faery Queen," says Hallam, " became at once the delight of every accomplished gentleman,...model of every poet, the solace of every scholar." The author, not unconscious of merit, but unspoiled by applause, returned to his castle in fairy-haunted... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 272 pages
...zenhh, and scarcely paled its fires when Shakspeare's followed it. " The Faery Queen," says Hallam, " became at once the delight of every accomplished gentleman,...model of every poet, the solace of every scholar." The author, not unconscious of merit, but unspoiled by applause, returned to his castle in fairy-haunted... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 pages
...hands of the reader) interfered with the immediate recognition of his supremacy. The Faery Queen hecame at once the delight of every accomplished gentleman,...every scholar. In the course of the next century, by the extinction of habits derived from chivalry, and the change both of taste and language, which came... | |
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The Faerie Queen was received with a burst of general welcome. It became "the delight of every accomplished gentleman, the model of every poet, the solace of every soldier. 
