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" 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, with no rougher voice than rude style... "
Essays Upon Authors and Books - Page 70
by William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 236 pages
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1841 - 836 pages
...song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet 'tis sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile ; which being so evill apparelled in the dust and cobwebbe of that nncivill age, what would it work,...
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Address Delivered Before the Harvard Musical Association in the Chapel of ...

William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 196 pages
...says, " I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old song of ' Piercy and Douglas,' that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile." Is not then Music an infinite world, within whose atmosphere the weariest spirit, surcharged with the...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...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 than rude stile : which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 2

William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet it is sung but by some blind crowdcr, with no rougher voice than rude stile." A powerful...beautiful parables of the New Testament contain the noblest moral lessons, and as narratives, are perfect in form and detail, full of a sweet pathetic...
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Early Ballads Illustrative of History, Traditions and Customs

Robert Bell - 1864 - 240 pages
...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 than rude style.' — Defence of Poetry. The original title of the ballad was The Hunting of the Cheviot. The...
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Selections from Addison's papers contributed to the Spectator, ed. by T. Arnold

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...following words. ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by 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 trimmed...
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Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...following words. ' I never heard the old song of Pic rcy and Douglas, that" I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by 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 trimmed...
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The Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, Volume 2

John Merry Ross - 1877 - 625 pages
...'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 than rude style.' The later and more familiar version has been ^extravagantly criticised by Addison in papers...
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The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating the Last Years of the Stuarts, Part 1

Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 682 pages
...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 than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...songb 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 than rude stile: which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed...
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