" It was a rude speech, and my hard voice and common clothes made it ruder.

In scholars' fortunes, twice forlorn and dead, Twice hath our weary pen erst laboured; Making them pilgrims in Parnassus' Hill, Then penning their return with ruder quill.

Witnesse, ye muses, how I wilful sung These heady rhimes, withouten second care; And wish'd them worse my guilty thoughts among; The ruder satire should go ragg'd and bare, And shew his rougher and his hairy hide, Tho' mine be smooth, and deck'd in carelesse pride.

The homely shepheard, nor the ruder clowne; But manie Muses, and the Nymphes withall, That sweetly in accord did tune their voyce To the soft sounding of the waters fall; That my glad hart thereat did much reioyce.

He will find fewer and worse roads, fewer wells, worse constructed houses, much ruder cultivation, less activity and industry; more dirt, disease, and desolation; less intelligence; more intolerance; and a peasantry morally, mentally, physically, and in every way inferior to those who are brought into daily contact with the Anglo-Saxon planters and gentlemen, and have imbibed somewhat of their activity and spirit of progress.

It has a floor of flag-stones, even ruder than those of Shakspeare's house,though, perhaps, not so strangely cracked and broken as the latter, over which the hoof of Satan himself might seem to have been trampling.

Suffice it to say that the Romance of the Round Table, far less vivid and brilliant, far ruder as a work of skill and art, has more of the innocence, the emotion, the transparency, the inconsistency of childhood.

The balmy odor was, however, quelled by the ruder scent.

After about two hours walking I arrived at the termination of this ruder scene, and reached that part of the country which is inclosed and cultivated.

Officers found their way there from distant garrison towns; the cultivated among them being a most welcome addition, the ruder the inconvenience of every one.

It is a ruder scene of rocks and trees, Where even barrenness is beautywhere The glassy lake, below the mountain bare, Curls up its waters 'neath the casual breeze;

Has he been encouraged to works of skill, to manufacturing arts even of the ruder kind?

There was no mistaking the massive round tower, with its projecting ornaments, such as are often seen in the ruder works of the Romans.

"But not alone shall Southron vale Lament that day of woe Grief's sigh shall soothe each ruder gale Where Scotia's waters flow.

Here is a field in which whatsoever is achieved by the pioneers of literature, can be appreciated only by thorough scholars; for the progress of improvement in any art or science, can be known only to those who can clearly compare its ruder with its more refined stages; and it often happens that what is effected with much labour, may be presented in a very small compass. 5.

"Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow.

Trailing wearily behind a rude wagon, and over a ruder road, Tom and his associates came to their new home.

The poet requires a subject more sublime, inspiring and naturally beautiful than the novelist, who seeks what is the more human, nearer the level of daily social existence, and full of the affecting even if ruder interests and passions of life.

He did not lack encouragement; for the nobles and burghers of Bâle had begun to acquire a taste for the arts, which their ruder fathers contemned; and they had, at this time, a university in their city, which made them acquainted with Cicero and the orators, of whom Aeneas Sylvius found them so ignorant.

His ruder followers, and even the women and children, he would arm with pikes to defend the fortifications.

I call all nature to bear witness here As fair a flower once grew within my home, As young, as lovely, and as dearly lov'd I had a sister once, a gentle maid The only daughter of my father's house, Round whom our ruder loves did all entwine, As round the dearest treasure that we own'd.

The customs and the political and social systems of these two tribes were very similar; and those of their two western neighbors were merely ruder copies thereof.

When the four kings of Ireland were feasted in Dublin by King Richard II. of England, an English chronicler remarked, "Never were men of ruder manners"; but neither the silken array and golden glitter of Richard's peripatetic court nor the brave display of his thousand knights and thirty thousand archers filled them with longing for the one or fear of the other.

In those days Creole society was a ship, in which the fair sex were all passengers and the ruder sex the crew.

The cosmogonic poetry is in its outlines not unlike that of Hesiod, but develops the ruder ideas at greater length.