 I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the mind of man.  The Druses of the Lebanon - Page ide George Washington Chasseaud - 1855 - 422 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...No. 70. Addison. Monday, May 21, 1711.] Interdum vulgus rectum videt.' — Horace. When I traveled, the dangerous-true at every turn, how shall he know?...recorded in his knowledge. Nature, with her truth 1 In Punch and .fudy. of tin1 common i>co|ile is right. of the countries through which I passed; for... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1925 - 346 pages
...according to the locality. C. (Addison) in the seventieth number of The Spectator, May 21, 1711, says : " When I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that come from father to son, and are most in vogue among the Common People . . . for it is impossible that... | |
 | Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - 1927 - 540 pages
...klassicismen, balladen, og sier 1711 i «Spectator»' : «When I travelled, I took a parti cu la r delight in hearing the Songs and Fables that are come from Father to Son.» Han citerer balladen Chevy Chase, det samme emne som Walter Scott siden har behandlet i balladen «The... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 pages
...valuable as the lands themselves. C No. 70. Monday, May 21, 1711. Interdum vulgus rectum videt.—Hor. 1 When I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing...common people of the countries through which I passed; / for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, tho'... | |
 | Roger Fiske - 1983 - 256 pages
...Chevy Chace in nos. 70 and 74 of the Spectator. Addison mentions the pleasure he had had from other 'Songs and Fables that are come from Father to Son, and are most in vogue among the common People'. In a friend's house Percy had rescued an old manuscript collection of ballads which was being used... | |
 | Ed Cray - 1999 - 488 pages
...dedicated to Sara N. Shaffer, my mother, and to the memory of Wayland Debs Hand, my friend Teachers both When I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing...common people of the countries through which I passed; for it is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, tho they... | |
 | Daniel R. Woolf - 2003 - 454 pages
...(t732l. We find a similar enthusiasm in the normally snobbish Addison for another traditional form, 'the songs and fables that are come from father to...in vogue among the common people of the countries ... An ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all... | |
 | Peter Van der Merwe - 2004 - 588 pages
...the late eighteenth century. The earlier attitude is neatly captured in the words of Joseph Addison: When I travelled, I took a particular Delight in hearing...common People of the Countries through which I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho'... | |
 | Matthew Gelbart - 2007 - 265 pages
...who began his Spectator article on the Scottish-English border ballad "Chevy Chase": When I traveled, I took a particular Delight in hearing the Songs and...common People of the Countries through which I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho'... | |
 | Min Wild - 2008 - 252 pages
...depended on an argument about popular taste; referring to the songs and fables he had heard in his travels 'that are come from Father to Son, and are most in vogue among the common People', he gave qualified assent to the notion that the taste of the 'Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble... | |
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