...children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Arcadia. Book i. There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil. They are never...

...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his u Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet.'' * Its subject is this. It was a regulation between those who lived...

...to satisfy the longings of his imagination, said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." The martial state of society among the border-population seems to have fostered a minstrelsy distinguished...

...Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defense of Poesy," writes thus respecting this ancient ballad :— " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung (te even when it is sung) but by some blind crowder (fiddler), with no rougher voice than rude...

...of virtue, to virtuous acts ? who giveth moral precepts and natural problems ? who sometimes raised) up his voice to the height of the heavens, in singing...? Certainly, I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas,* that I found not my heart moved more than with...

...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." * Its subject is this. It was a regulation between those who lived...

...spirit of the poem. ' Certainly,' says Sir Philip Sydney, ' I must confess my own barbarousness : 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 rougher voice than rude style.' — Defence of Poetry....

...undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." . . . b. " Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." . . . c. " But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...

...all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words: 6 1 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...

...possessed of, he deemed their interest :"f or from dedication to * [" I never heard the old song of Pereie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence of Poesle. — Ed.-] Monareh or Pontiff, in whieh the honor given was asserted in equipoise...