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... English Prose: Selections - Page 419edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...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 apparelled... | |
| Ballads, English - 1765 - 382 pages
...at tht $t>4 Ilf Pol- 3Additional Nates find C cr re8iont ihid. I never heard the. old fong 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 ftile; which beeing Qy evill... | |
| Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...reward of virtue, to virtuous acts, who gives moral precepts and natural problems, who sometimes ruiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens in singing...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... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1767 - 460 pages
...Jemmy Dawfon, fee in Vol. 2. p. 378. I never I hever heard the old fong of Percie and Douglas, that t 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 ftile ; which beeing fo... | |
| History - 1793 - 620 pages
...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... | |
| British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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... | |
| History - 1802 - 630 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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