 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
 | Joseph Addison - 278 pages
...(I) Interdum vulgus rectum videt. Hon. l-'.fi. I. ii. 63. Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright. 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, though... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 pages
...CHEVY-CHASE (I) Interdum vulgus rectum videt. HOR. Ep. \. ii. 63. Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright. 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, though... | |
 | 1868 - 764 pages
...taste for them had been awakened during his travels on the Continent. ' When I travelled,' he writes, ' I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come from father to son, and are in vogue among the common people. For it is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and... | |
 | Frank Kidson, Mary Neal - 1972 - 208 pages
...INTRODUCTION WRITING two centuries ago, Joseph Addison tells us in the character of Mr Spectator : — " When I travelled I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come down from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1917 - 1008 pages
...across two centuries, speaking of popular poetry, has this very satisfactory passage: When I traveled I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come down from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which... | |
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