 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...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 than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1852 - 398 pages
...been, as Chevy Chase was to Sir Philip Sydney, such, that I might say with him, " I never heard it, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ;" and at this day a picture of the scene, which I saw years ago, when I was a mere boy — I think, by Etty... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 pages
...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 rude style." Napoleon lost Waterloo,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...except that well-known one, where, speaking of the old ballads, he says, "I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with the sound of a trumpet." A lady once modernised the " Arcadia ;" would that some one, competent to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 pages
...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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." For those of meaner sort there... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...be possessed of, he deemed their interest :"t or from dedication to * [" I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence of Poesie. — JSd] Monarcli or Pontiff^ in which the honor given was asserted in equipoise... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...be possessed of, he deemed their interest :"t or from dedication to * [" I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence of Poeiie.— **•! Monarch or Pontiff, in which the honor given was asserted in equipoise... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...minstrelsy, is apparent from that well-known sentence of Sir Philip Sydney : " I never heard the old song of Percie and 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...minstrelsy, is apparent from that well-known sentence of Sir Philip Sydney : " I never heard the old song of Percie and 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 pages
...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 of Hotspur, by showing that the... | |
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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... 
