 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old aong of Piercy and Douglass, that 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 argument of the noble, original and wonderful... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...to satisfy the longings of his imagination, said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." The martial state of society among the border-population seems to have fostered a minstrelsy distinguished... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 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,...than with a trumpet: and yet [it] is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style; which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...the tragic, the lyric, — and enthusiastically dilates upon the union of metre with music : — " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude * This is supposed to be the origin of Shakspeare's... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...Defense of Poesy," writes thus respecting this ancient ballad :— " 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 (te even when it is sung) but by some blind crowder (fiddler), with no rougher voice than rude... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 pages
...branches, as it was established in England, whether by natives or foreigners. or ANCIENT POETRY, ETC. " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...with a trumpet ; and yet ' it' is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style : which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...effort of good, great, and wise men. Sir Philip Sidney wrote,— "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 in the dust and cobwebs... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...and wise men. Sir Philip Sidney wrote, — "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that 1 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 cobwebs... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 pages
...and Douglas," (that is, Chevy Chace, or the Battle of Otterburn, equally beloved by Ben Jonfon,) " that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is fung but by fome blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 pages
...Percy and Douglas," (that is, Chevy Chace, or the Battle of Otterburn, equally beloved by Ben Jonfon,) "that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is fung but by fome blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled... | |
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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... 
