 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 страници
...immortal God ? Certainly, I muft confefs mine own barbaroufhefs, I never heard the old * long of <Piercy and 'Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is it limg but by fbme blind crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile :... | |
 | 1793 - 620 страници
...qoitb that gentleman's oifervations upon this curious piece of antiquity* I never heard the old foag of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet 'it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ttile;... | |
 | 1822 - 688 страници
...metrical romance, appears, at first view, inexplicable. " I never heard," says Sir Philip Sydney, 44 the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ;" nnd Ben Jonsou used to say he had rather have been the author of that fine old ballad... | |
 | 1802 - 630 страници
...qailb that gentleman's obfervatioits upon this curious piect of antiquity. I never heard the old long of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet 'it1 is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude llile... | |
 | James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 страници
...Sidney in his discourse of poetry, bestows this eulogy on it : "I never heard the old song of " Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more " than with a trumpet ; and yet is it but sung by some blind " crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile,... | |
 | 1822 - 496 страници
...metrical romance, appears, at first view, inexplicable. " I never heard," says Sir Philip Sydney, " the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ;" and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of that fine old ballad... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 582 страници
...touches of deep and genuine feeling. Of the first, Sir Philip Sidney, no .incompetent judge, has said, " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I have found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sungbut by some blind crowder,... | |
 | 1831 - 550 страници
...passage which refers either to the ballad of Chevy Chase, or to that of the battle of Otterbourne, " I never heard the old song of ' Percie and Douglas,' that I found not my heart moved more 'than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blinde ' crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 страници
...sound of a trumpet, the heroic blood of Sir Philip Sidney.2 1 [See The Spectator, No. 70 and 74.] 8 [I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with the sound of a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude... | |
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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet... 
