 | Thomas Percy - 1794 - 422 страници
...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 the moft ordinary Reader,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 страници
...poem of 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...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 страници
...so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is die delight of the common people, cannot lail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the... | |
 | 1803 - 434 страници
...poem of 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...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature. which recommend it to the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 страници
...poem of 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...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, hecause the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 страници
...poem of 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...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 страници
...poem of 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...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 страници
...to please all such readers as are not •nqtialified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature, which recommend it to the том ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 страници
...poem of Cowley ; so, on the con trary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as...unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the srme paintings of nature, which recommend it to the... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 430 страници
...please all such '• readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment '• by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is ' plain, because the...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... | |
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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 or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because... 
