All attempts to modernise Chaucerian verse inevitably result in destroying something of the charm and melody of the original.
One may thus modernise Tarchon into the Eternal John, Jean, or Giant, and it is seemingly this same giant that figured as the John, Joan, or Old Joan of Cornish festivals.
Aunt Ruby is bent on modernising him; but to modernise John Musgrave would be like pulling down a Norman tower and reconstructing on its foundation a factory-chimney of red brick.
I am not laying myself out to please Mr Musgrave, but to modernise him, as you suggested.
Modernise him, my dear, and I will believe in woman's power.
In the process of attempting to modernise Mr Musgrave, she took a pleasure occasionally in shocking him.
Though Edwin had endeavoured to modernise Big James, he had failed.
Why, if they were bent on modernising, did they notmodernise the shields?
We may prove anything if we argue, now that the poets retain the tradition of obsolete things, now that they modernise as much as they please.
Here the late poets have their innings at last, and do modernise the Homeric house.
Again, the later remanieurs of the earliest Chansons de Geste modernise the details of these poems.
My new book would have been ready in a few days, but if you can give me an extra fortnight, I'll go through it again and try to--to modernise it a little.
I was going to ask you if you don't think you could do something to modernise your style a little.
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