 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1765 - 382 ページ
...Gloff&y, fie at tht $t>4 Ilf Pol- 3Additional Nates find C cr re8iont ihid. I never heard the. old fong of Percie and Douglas, that I ; found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet' it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing Qy evill aparelled... | |
 | 1867 - 878 ページ
...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 no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1767 - 460 ページ
...Jemmy Dawfon, fee in Vol. 2. p. 378. I never I hever heard the old fong of Percie and Douglas, that t found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet ' it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile ; which beeing fo evill apparelled... | |
 | 1793 - 620 ページ
...qoitb that gentleman's oifervations upon this curious piece of antiquity* I never heard the old foag of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet 'it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ttile; which being fo evill aparelled... | |
 | 1822 - 688 ページ
...metrical romance, 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 ページ
...qailb that 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... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 ページ
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 518 ページ
...MINSTRELSY in all its branches, as it was established in England, whether by natives or foreigners. I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...style ; which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindare !... | |
 | James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 ページ
...Sidney in his discourse of poetry, bestows this eulogy on it : "I never heard the old song of " Percy and Douglas, that I found not 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... | |
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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... 
