 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1765 - 382 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1867 - 878 pagina’s
...sometimes ruiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens in singing the lauds of the immortal God ? 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1767 - 460 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1793 - 620 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pagina’s
...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 - 1802 - 366 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pagina’s
...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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