 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
 | 1928 - 444 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?" Addison had met zijn artikel over Chevy-Chase, waarvan het vervolg vier dagen later (No. 74, 25 Mei)... | |
 | John William Hebel - 1929 - 1088 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? In Hungary I have seen it the manner at all feasts, and other such meetings, to have songs of their... | |
 | John William Hebel, Hoyt Hopewell Hudson - 1929 - 1154 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? In Hungary I have seen it the manner at all feasts, and other such meetings, to have songs of their... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 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}" Probably Coleridge remembered the first part of this passage and associated it with another, much later... | |
 | Robert Matz - 2000 - 206 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? (46) Sidney's inspiration at hearing the "old song" of Chevy Chase, a ballad of feudal rivalry and... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 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? In Hungary I have 10 seen it the manner at all feasts, and other such meetings, to have songs of theit... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 182 pages
...fiddle], 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? In Hungary 1 have seen it the manner at all feasts, and other such meetings, to have songs of their... | |
 | Michael Alexander - 2007 - 348 pages
...[fiddler], 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.'21 Here Sidney's 'barbarous' natural response is not quite suppressed by what he had been taught... | |
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