 Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing blind harmony, such tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choke you, as have set all this learned body a-dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my old Bard, his countryman,...  Letters on the scenery of Wales - Page 126by Robert Hasell Newell - 1821 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...from him neither, in spite of his promises: there is no faith in man, no not in a Welchman ; and yet Mr. Parry * has been here, and scratched out such...tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...from him neither, in spite of his promises : there is no faith in num. no not in a Welchman ; and yet Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing...tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a-dancing, and inspired them will) due reverence for my... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...from him neither, in spite of his promises : there is no faith in man, no not in a Welshman; and yet Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing...tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...neither, in spite of his promises: VOL. iv. 18 there is no faith in man, no not in a Welshman; and yet Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing...tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...from him neither, in spite of his promises : there is no faith in man, no not in a Welchman ; and yet Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing...tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them .with due reverence for my... | |
 | Wales - 1822 - 512 pages
...curious circumstance, that we owe his " Bard" to a Welsh harper — blind Parry, Sir Watkin Wynn's- harper. In a letter from Cambridge Gray says, " Mr....ravishing blind harmony, such tunes of a thousand years old,with names enough to choke you, as have set all this'learned body a dancing, and inspired them... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...from him neither, in spite of his promises : there is no faith in man, no not in a Welchman; and yet Mr. Parry* has been here, and scratched out such ravishing...enough to choke you, as have set all this learned body a-dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my old Bard, his countryman, whenever he shall... | |
 | Joseph Hemingway, Wales - 1847 - 236 pages
...is a curious circumstance that we owe Gray's Bard to a Welsh harper — blind Parry, Sir WW Wynn's harper. In a letter from Cambridge, Gray says : —...and scratched out such ravishing blind harmony, such tones of a thousand years old, with names enough to choke you, as have set all this learned body a... | |
 | Edward Parry - 1847 - 378 pages
...effects of the Welsh harp. " Old blind Parry, the harper, has been here, and scratched out such ravishing harmony, such tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choak you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them with due respect for my old... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 pages
...man, no, not in a Welch-man, and yet Mr. Parry has been here and scratched out such ravishing hlind harmony, such tunes of a thousand years old, with...enough to choke you, as have set all this learned body a-dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for Odikle, whenever it shall appear. Mr. Parry (you... | |
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