 | Thomas Percy - 1794 - 422 pàgines
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pàgines
...: 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pàgines
...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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pàgines
...; 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Bgn Jonson used to say he... | |
 | 1803 - 420 pàgines
...; 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy -Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 pàgines
...; 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say, he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pàgines
...; 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pàgines
...: 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pàgines
...: 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...appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pàgines
...the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not •nqtialified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance...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... | |
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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... 
