 | Thomas Percy - 1876 - 548 страници
...tchether by wtives or foreigners. " 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 bl some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill apparelled iu... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1876 - 630 страници
...POETRY, ETC. " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved mure than with a trumpet ; and yet ' it' is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rudo style : which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1877 - 174 страници
...must confess mine own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet, and yet...blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." For those of meaner sort there were the ballads of Eobin Hood, " of whom the foolish vulgar make lewd... | |
 | John Merry Ross - 1877 - 625 страници
...'the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung but by^ some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style.' The later and more familiar version has been ^extravagantly criticised by Addison in papers 70 and... | |
 | English poetry - 1877 - 1010 страници
...England, whether by natives, or foreigners. I never heard the old gong of Fercie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet [it] ia sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill... | |
 | 1878 - 252 страници
...Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy " : "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and...blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." 34, p- 27. — A gown of silk and a silver tee. A tee is doubtless a corruption of the archaic or provincial... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 страници
...song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a Trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind Crowder, with no rougher voice...style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar}" Probably... | |
 | Max Putzel - 1985 - 364 страници
...song of Percy and Douglas" but that he found his heart "moved more then with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." It was in some such spirit that Faulkner returned to the old St. Louis ballad of "Frankie and Johnny,"... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1999 - 188 страници
...fn3, 545. feels, to have found the battle-field trumpet more stirring, more moving, than something "sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style," because rough ballads and the feelings they incite are less apt to his maleness, his class, his social... | |
 | Robert Matz - 2000 - 206 страници
...civility: I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet...style; which, being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar? (46) Sidney's... | |
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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; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that... 
