 | Ballads, English - 1723 - 348 pages
...Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we find the following Exprejfion. " / never heard the " Old Song of Piercy and Douglas, that " I found not my Heart more moved than " with a Trumpet; and yet it is funs; by " fomeblindCrowder,withnorougher Voice " than rude Stile: Which being fo evilap<( parelrd... | |
 | Ambrose Philips - Ballads, English - 1723 - 346 pages
...Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we fond the following ExpreJJion. " I never heard the " Old Song of Piercy and Douglas, that " I found not my Heart more moved than " with a Trumpet; and yet it is fung by " fomeblindCrowder, with norougher Voice " than rude Stile: Which being fo evil ap" parelled... | |
 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...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... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words: ' I never heard the old foDgot Piercy and Douglas, that 1 found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is lung by fume blind crowder with no rougher voici: than rude ftile; which being lo evil apparelled in... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...Sidney, in his difcourfe of poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old *'.fong of Percy and Douglas, that I found not " my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; " and yet it is fung by fome blind crowder with *' no rougher voice than rude ftile ; which be" ing fo evil apparelled... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all...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 in the dust and cobweb... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all...with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved...with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, ' that I found not my heart more moved...with a ' trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder ' with no rougher voice than rude style; which being ' so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
...Sidney, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old sung of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more...with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet... 
