 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 sider
...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 : which being fo evil... | |
 | 1867 - 878 sider
...Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I fonnd 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... | |
 | 1793 - 620 sider
...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; which being fo evill aparelled... | |
 | 1822 - 688 sider
...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 tlmn all his... | |
 | 1802 - 630 sider
...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 ; which being Ibevill... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 sider
...Certainly I" must —199— u confess mine own barbarousness : 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 by " some blind crowder with no .rougher voice than rude " style ; which being so evil apparelled in... | |
 | James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 sider
...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, which being " so evil... | |
 | 1822 - 496 sider
...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.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 sider
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 378 sider
...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... 
