 | 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... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...1721, p. 166, & feq.r' Letter to Henry Cromwell, Efq. on " Simplicity in Poetical Composition." " med in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?" For my own part, I am fo profefled an admirer of this antiquated fong, that I mall give my reader a critique upon it, without... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...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 age, what would...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
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...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 age, what would...upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, that an heroic poem should be founded upon... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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 age, what would...upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The ; greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, that an heroic poem should be founded upon... | |
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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... 
