 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 sidor
...And yet it issung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; wbich being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence ofPindar? 2. Nay, he doth as if your journey should lie through a faire vineyard , at the very first,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 sidor
...trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...critique upon it, without any further apology for s« doing. * The greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, that an heroic poem should :>e... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sidor
...trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude stile ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ? " THE FIRST FiT.1 The Pers£ owt2 of Northombarlande, And a vowe to God mayd he, That he wolde hunte... | |
 | Carl Engel - 1866 - 462 sidor
...trumpet : and yet it is sung by some blind crowdcr with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?'"— (The Spectator, No. 70). " I have heard that the late Lord Dorset, who had the greatest wit tempered... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 sidor
...sung but by somc blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparellcd in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would...work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar? 2. Nay, he doth as if your journey should lie through a faire vineyard, at the very first give you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 sidor
...and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ! " a He who made the " drum-and-trumpet thing " desired to move men's hearts as Sydney's was moved.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1867 - 706 sidor
...author of it than of all his works." Then he quotes Sir Philip Sidney's famous words ; and then adds, " For my own part I am so professed an admirer of this antiquated song that I shall give my reader a critick upon it, without any further apology for so doing." And he proceeds to investigate the poem... | |
 | James Maidment - 1868 - 388 sidor
...no rougher voice than VOL. I. 6 rude stile ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age ; what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?" The "expression" of Sir Philip Sidney must have had reference to the ancient and not to the modern... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 sidor
...tflimpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowderwith no roughei voice than rude stile; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?" THE FIRST FIT.' The Persfe owt * of Northombarlande, And a vowe to God mayd he, That he wolde hunte... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 sidor
...blind Crowder with no rougher voice tiian rude style ; which being so evil a,pparelled in <r the duse and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work,...this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a critic upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid it... | |
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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil... 
