 | 1831 - 368 pages
...works. The ballad, on which there is a beautiful critique in the Spectator, No. 70 and 74, is confound 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1839 - 374 pages
...as it wa« estahlished in England, whether hy natives or foreigners. RELIQUES ANCIENT POETEY, &c, " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet ' it' is sung hut hy some hlinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style : which heeing so ev ill apparelled... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1839 - 504 pages
...MINSTRELSY in all its branches, as it was established in England, whether by natives or foreigners. I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and .vet 'it'is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...Sidney, no incompetent judge, has said, " I never heard the old song of Percie 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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1840 - 520 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,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1841 - 836 pages
...English Poetry." The sentence is the following : — " Certainly I must confesse mine own barbarousnesse, I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that...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... | |
 | Richard John King - 1842 - 352 pages
...the one admired by Sir Philip Sydney. " I never heard," he says in his Defence of Poetry, " the olde song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart...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... | |
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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... 
