 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...veraor. given in Percy's " Reliques.11 and perhaps it may be the same of which Sir Philip Sidney 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" (tiddler) '• with... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. IKd. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. JKd. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Arcadia.... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 pages
...has been growing in popular esteem for more than three hundred years. Ben Jonson used to say he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse on poetry, says of it : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1885 - 422 pages
...has been growing in popular esteem for more than three hundred years. Ben Jonson used to say he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse on poetry, says of it : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1885 - 416 pages
...has been growing in popular esteem for more than three hundred years. Ben Jonson used to say he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse on poetry, says of it : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...antique 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 I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung but by some blind crowder,* with no rougher voice... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1886 - 568 pages
...nature which recommend it 30 to the most ordinary reader will appear beautiful to the most refined. rather have been the author of it than of all his...works. Sir Philip Sidney in his Discourse of Poetry n speaks of it in the following words. ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1887 - 456 pages
...Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sydney, in his Discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old song of Picrcy and Douglas that I found not my heart more stirred than with a trumpet." "An heroic poem should... | |
 | Denys Thompson - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 252 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney (in The Defence of Poesy) wrote, '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.' Whatever it was - the appeal to local patriotism or the values of... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 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 found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder,67 with no rougher voice... | |
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