| Ballads, English - 1723 - 348 pages
...been admir'd: And in Sir Philip Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we find the following Exprejfion. " / never heard the " Old Song of Piercy and Douglas,...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
...been admir'd: And in Sir Philip Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we fond the following ExpreJJion. " I never heard the " Old Song of Piercy and Douglas,...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...Sidney, in his difcourfe of poetry,, fpeaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old fong of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is lung by fome blind crouder with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled in... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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...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 - 1802 - 366 pages
...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 rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 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 Piercy and Douglas, '...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 works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that...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... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...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 in the dust and "... | |
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