 | James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 páginas
...judges in this country ; Sir Philip Sidney in his discourse of poetry, bestows this eulogy on it : "I never heard the old song of " Percy and Douglas,...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, which being " so evil... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 páginas
...all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 páginas
...history of ancient poetry. " Certainly," says the brave knight, " I must confess my own barbarousness; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet. And yet it is sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than... | |
 | 1822 - 788 páginas
...all his works Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' at; for which a less eminent droll would have been sent to the galleys. Tr more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder wit h no rougher voice than... | |
 | 1822 - 496 páginas
...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 than all his works.... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 páginas
...following words : ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that 1 found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowdcr with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 páginas
...following words. ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparalled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | 1824 - 284 páginas
...all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words. ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than... | |
 | 1824 - 378 páginas
...barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas" — (the ballad of Chevy Chase)—" that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." His summing up of this part is as follows: " Since, then, poetry is of all human learning the most... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 páginas
...barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas" — (the ballad of Chevy Chase)—" that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." His summing up of this part is as follows: " Since, then, poetry is of all human learning the most... | |
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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... 
