 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
 | Thomas Percy - 1847 - 506 pages
...but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil! age, what...would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindare ! SIE PHILIP SYDNEY'S DEFENCE OP POETRY. EELIQDES OP ANCIENT POETEY, tfC. SERIES THE FIRST.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1850 - 652 pages
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 | John Mathew Gutch - 1850 - 454 pages
...bat by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which being so well apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil! age, what...would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindarre !"— Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of Poetry. f Nos. 70«nd74. "An ordinary Song or Ballad... | |
 | East India college - 1850 - 368 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?"—a passage often transcribed, and deserving to be transcribed again and again. Poetry spurs... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...is sung by same 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 !' " (c) Explain accurately the meaning of the clause printed in italics. (d) When did Ben Jonson nourish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...sung but 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 !"t He who made the " drurn-aiid-truinpct thing" desired to move men's hearts as Sydney's was moved.... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pages
...is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being BO 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 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...professed an admirer of this antiquated song, that 1 shall give my reader a critique upon it, without any further apology for so doing. The greatest modern... | |
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