 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...  The Spectator - Page 205by Joseph Addison - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...fbme blind crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile : which being fo evil apparelled in the dud and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of 'Pindar1. In Hungary, I have feen it the manner at all feafts, and other fuchlike meetings, to have... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1765 - 406 pages
...blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing fo cvill aparelled in the dull and cobweb of that uncivil! age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindare ? SIR PHILIP SYDNEY'S DEFENCE OF POETB.T. BALLADS. - "-1/ s. — • , - -J '1 ' " ~ ' '•'•"•... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pages
...crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; 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?" Sir Walter Raleigh resembled Sidney in the universality of his accomplishments, and in the brilliancy... | |
 | 1778 - 378 pages
...fome blind crouder with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled in the duft and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work...gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?' For my own part I am foprofefled an admirer of this antiquated fong, that I fhall give my reader a critique upon it, without... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...than rude ftile; which being lo evil apparelled in the dull and cobweb of that uncivil age, what wouid it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?' For my own part, I am fo profelled an admirer of this antiquated ibng, that ,1 (hall give my reader a critique upon it, without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work...this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a critique upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid it... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?1 For my own part, I am so professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that I shall give my... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 800 pages
...some blind Cronder with mi rougher voice than mde st'lc; uiiieli being to evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of 1'indar:' For uiy own purl, I am so professed *i admirer of this antiquated song, that I shall give... | |
 | John Bell - 1812 - 340 pages
...blind crouder, with no rougher " voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled in the dud and " cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the " gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?" Addifon eulogizes it highly in Nos. 70 and 74 of the Spectator. And in the second volume of Dry... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work...this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a critique upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid it... | |
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