 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...and Douglas, that I have found 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 cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous... | |
 | 1840 - 520 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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney J is pleased to make this mention. " 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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney \ is pleased to make this mention. " 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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 606 pages
...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 than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words: ' the Engush stage; and by the addition of a few porters dressed in red coats, can represent above apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence... | |
 | Richard John King - 1842 - 352 pages
...Percie 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 than rude style ; which, being so evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...knight, " I must confess my own bnrbiirous'ness ; I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglal, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet. And Vet it is sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled... | |
 | 1903 - 848 pages
...Poesy." "Certainly," says he, "I must confess my own barbarousness. I never heard the old song of 'Piercy and Douglas,' that I found not my heart more moved...some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude Stile; which being so evil apparelled in the Dust and Cobweb of that uncivil Age, what would It work... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
