 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." 4 Its subject is this. It was a regulation between those who lived near the borders of England and... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 368 pages
...Philip Sidney, in his Discourse on Poetry, are quoted, by Addison, in No. 70 of the Spectator — " / never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." The ballad of Chevy Chase was founded upon the battle of Otterburn, which was fought in 1388, and of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 pages
...spirit of Sir Philip Sydney, and of which, in a well-known passage of his ' Defence of Poesy,' he said, "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."* These antiquated poems supply illustration of the story and character... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...his Discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a ti umpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...his Discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a tiumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his u Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet.'' * Its subject is this. It was a regulation between those who lived near the borders of England and... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blinde 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... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 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 - 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... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
...are unpretentious; he likes the rudest of poetry, the old song of Percy and Douglas, "and yet is it sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style" (97). So amiable is he that he can graciously condescend to the philosopher and historian—those curmudgeons!—with... | |
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