 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 דפים
...action was the Cheviot hills. Of this ballad. Sir Phillip Sydney, in his 'Defense of Poetry,' remarks, 'I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with the sound of a trumpet.' The spelling of the original poem is now so nearly obsolete... | |
 | 1851 - 362 דפים
...b) natives or foreigners. RELIQUES ANCIENT POETRY, &c, •• I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with i trumpet ; and yet ' it' is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 דפים
...thing." The age in which it was produced was one in which the most accomplished of its courtiers said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...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... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 דפים
...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 same blind Crowder with no rougher voice than... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1852 - 398 דפים
...been, as Chevy Chase was to Sir Philip Sydney, such, that I might say with him, " I never heard it, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ;" and at this day a picture of the scene, which I saw years ago, when I was a mere boy — I think, by Etty... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 דפים
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...my heart moved more than with a trumpet, and yet is sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than rude style." Napoleon lost Waterloo, and... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 דפים
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...my heart moved more than with a trumpet, and yet is sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than rude style." Napoleon lost Waterloo, and... | |
 | 1853 - 524 דפים
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 460 דפים
...utterance, helping to restore force and purity of style. " I must confess my own barbarousness," says he. "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." This very " old Song " modernised into our ballad of 'Chevy Chase/... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 דפים
...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... | |
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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... 
