 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
 | James Ford - 1818 - 432 pages
...some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude stile; 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 ? The celebrated Author of the " Task" was strongly attached to this stile of composition, and in one... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 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... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 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?"* If we enquire more particularly what were the peculiar charms by which the old minstrel ballad produced... | |
 | 1822 - 790 pages
...some blind Crowder wit h no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust , / &v3w3 1 am so professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that 1 shall give my reader a critique upon it,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apart;] led 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... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed iu the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?' For my own part,...professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that 1 shall give my reader a critique upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern... | |
 | 1824 - 282 pages
...some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparalled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work...upon it, without any further apology for so doing. 82 THE SPECTATOR. No. 70 The greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, that an heroic poem... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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...eloquence of Pindar?" For my own part, I am so professed at) admirer of this antiquated song, that I shall give my reader a critique upon it, without any further... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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?" — Jlddison. XCVI. Custom, tho' but usher of the school Where nature breeds the body and the soul,... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 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! — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. — ( Quoted by Addison, Spec. 70, 74J. IT was not known to Mr. Addison that... | |
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