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" I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet... "
Eliza Cook's Journal - Page 340
1851
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A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most ..., Volume 1

Ballads, English - 1723 - 348 pages
...Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we find the following Exprejfion. " / 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 funs; by " fomeblindCrowder,withnorougher Voice " than rude Stile: Which being fo evilap<( parelrd...
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A Collection of Old Ballads: Corrected from the Best and Most ..., Volume 1

Ambrose Philips - Ballads, English - 1723 - 346 pages
...Sidney's Difcourfe of Poetry, we fond the following ExpreJJion. " 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 fung by " fomeblindCrowder, with norougher Voice " than rude Stile: Which being fo evil ap" parelled...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words: ' I never heard the old foDgot Piercy and Douglas, that 1 found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is lung by fume blind crowder with no rougher voici: than rude ftile; which being lo evil apparelled in...
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 pages
...Sidney, in his difcourfe of poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old *'.fong of Percy and Douglas, that I found not " my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; " and yet it is fung by fome blind crowder with *' no rougher voice than rude ftile ; which be" ing fo evil apparelled...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not...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 British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not...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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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 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...some blind crowder ' with no rougher voice than rude style; which being ' so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that un' civil age, what would it...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 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...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 British Essayists, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
...Sidney, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old sung of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more...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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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...barbarousness : 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 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...
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