...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? . . . There rests the Heroical, whose very name, I think, should daunt all backbiters. For by what...

...crowder, with no rougher voice than 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?"* This ballad was probably composed as early as the time of Henry VI., if not earlier. We have room for...

...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evilapparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?" Having reached this point, partly on the way of argument, partly on the path of appeal and persuasion,...

...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?" Having reached this point, partly on the way of argument, partly on the path of appeal and persuasion,...

...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?" Having reached this point, partly on the way of argument, partly on the path of appeal and persuasion,...

...some blind croudes, 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 ?" Addison eulogizes it highly in Nos. 70 and 74 of The Speclatar. And in the second volume of Dryden's...

...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil appareled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?' May not the same view be taken of the concluding paragraph ? — ' But if (fie of such a but !) you...

...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 elegance of Pindar ? As though to obey Sidney's wish, a poet of the first years of the seventeenth...

...some blind harper with no rougher voice than rüde style; which being so badly dressed in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar." Indeed, Bishop Percy, who did not yet fully appreciate the charm of this old folk-poetry, often tried...

...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...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...