 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 sidor
...and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude stile; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, jhat an herolcpoem^should be founded_m>gn some important precept OTmorality, and adapted to the constitution... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 sidor
...and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude stile ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a 10 critique upon it without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 sidor
...and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude stile ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil...this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a 10 critique upon it without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 sidor
...and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so d to Wind or Weather. All this ho promised her the Enjoyment of, without such Fears and Alarms gorgous eloquence of Pindar ? In Hungary I have seen it the manner at all feasts, and all other euch-like... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1876 - 548 sidor
...bl some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill apparelled iu the dust and cobweb of that uncivil] age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence ul Pindare!" SIB PHILIP SYDNEY'S ' DEFENCE OF POETBT. RELIQUES OF ANCIENT POETRY, &c. BOOK I. O)c Ancient... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 1010 sidor
...ia sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil)...would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Findare ! SIR PHILII- SIDNEY'S DEFENCE OF FOETBY. CONTENTS, SERIES THE FIRST. BOOK I. PAOB I. The Ancient... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 682 sidor
...and yet is it 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...work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar.' " Was it this sentence that encouraged Bishop Percy and a host of unworthy imitators to manufacture... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 sidor
...is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil-apparel'd in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous éloquence of Pindar!' Addison, approving of the praise here given, dissents from the censure. 'I must,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 sidor
...1721, p. 166, 4 eeq. — Letter t< Henry Cromwell, Esq. on Simplicity in Poetical Cora position. — 0. the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would...professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that I j shall give my reader a critic upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sidor
...and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher 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? . . . There rests the Heroical, whose very name, I think, should daunt all backbiters. For by what... | |
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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... 
