 | Ballads, English - 1765 - 404 pages
...— — 333 Additional Notts to Volume II. — — 335 Additional Notes to Volume III. — — 342 An ordinary SONG or BALLAD that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to pleafe all fuch readers, as are cot unqualified for the entertainment by their :• sfrtt.ition or... | |
 | Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...rclifh nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem of Cowley ; fo, on the contrary, an ordinary fong or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to pleafe all fuch readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...relilh nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem of Cowley: fo, on the contrary, an ordinary fong or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to pleafe all fuch readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affedlation or ignorance... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1794 - 422 pages
...An ordinary SONG or BALLAD, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to pleafe all fuch readers, as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or their ignorance; and the reafon is plain, became the fame paintings of nature which recommend it to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...would neither rehsh nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem of Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of...affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, hecause the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem of Cowley : so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of...cannot fail to please all such readers as are not •nqtialified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...400 19. The ancient Fragment of the Marriage of Sir Gawaine , 410 The Glossary 419 An ordinary SONO or BALLAD, that is the delight of the common people,...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or their ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of Nature which recommend it... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram of Martial, or a poem of Cowley ; so, on the con trary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of...or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the srme paintings of nature, which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 430 pages
...rears ; And all, upstarting in its wonted place, As touch'd by some enchanter's wand, appears. 158466 " An ordinary SONG or BALLAD, that is the delight '•...which ' recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will ap' pear beautiful to the most refined. " I took a particular delight in hearing the SONGS 1 and FABLES... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...poem of Cowley : so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the commpn tocer eminent one another in a frog or a sallad, as...practice to overreach a neighbouring prince or state. il to the moat ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase... | |
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Cowley; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation of ignorance; and the reason is plain, because the... 
