 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 81by Joseph Addison - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1812 - 340 pages
...blind crouder, with no rougher " voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled in the dud and " cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the " gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?" Addifon eulogizes it highly in Nos. 70 and 74 of the Spectator. And in the second volume of Dry... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 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... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 430 pages
...is sung by 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 ? The celebrated Author of the " Task" was strongly attached to this stile of composition, and in one... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 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... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 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?"* If we enquire more particularly what were the peculiar charms by which the old minstrel ballad produced... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...sung by some blind Crowder wit h no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would...the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?" For my own part, 1 am so professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that 1 shall give my reader a critique upon it,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apart;] led 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 pages
...is sung by some blind crowdcr 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 iu the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?' For my own part, I am so professed an admirer of this antiquated... | |
 | 1824 - 284 pages
...plain common sense, who would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem ofCowley: so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that...upon it, without any further apology for so doing. 82 THE SPECTATOR. No. 70 The greatest modern critics have laid it down as a rule, that an heroic poem... | |
 | 1827 - 400 pages
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