| 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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 - 424 pages
...natural problems, who- sometimes " raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens,, in sing" ing the lauds of the immortal God. Certainly I must " confess mine own barbarousness : I never heard the old " song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart " moved more than with... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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... | |
| James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 pages
...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, that...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 pages
...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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