 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...Chace, which moved the heart of the chivalrous Sir Philip Sidney, so that, to use his own language, " I never heard the old song of Percy 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...years." Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy," writes thus respecting the ancient ballad : — " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung (ie even when it is sung) but by some blind crowder,... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...heavens, in singing the lauds of the immortal God - Certainly, I must confess mine own barbarousness ; 1 never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas,* that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...Chase," which moved the heart of the chivalrous Sir Philip Sidney, so that, to use his own language, " I never heard the old song of Percy 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... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pages
...Chase," which moved the heart of the chivalrous Sir Philip Sidney, so that, to use his own language, " I never heard the old song of Percy 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...heavens, in singing the lauds of the immortal God? 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 a trumpet ; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it was sung but by some blind minstrel, with no rougher voice... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...thing." The age in which it was produced was one in which the most accomplished of its courtiers said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 pages
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " 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 sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 pages
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " 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 sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than... | |
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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... 
