 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidftey, in his Discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his Discourse... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite making a man's for tune ; having observed, si nee my being a Speci he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. The old song of Chevy-Chance is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 284 pages
...ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined. /The old song of Chevy-Chace is the favourite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...ordinary reader, will 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 sa^, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse... | |
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The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. 
