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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... "
The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 43
by Alexander Chalmers - 1808
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...the heavens in singing the lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I fonnd not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with...
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 pages
...of Chevy-Chafe is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonfon ufed to fay he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his difcourfe of poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old *'.fong of Percy...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...The old song of Chevy -Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of...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 by...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Bgn Jonson used to say he had rather have been the 'author of...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...
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Essays on Various Subjects

George Walker - Aesthetics - 1809 - 396 pages
...these compositions, that in the subsequent debate to which it gave rise, he declared, that he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works, g 4 suasions suasions have then induced him to have borne a part in such a solemn mockery of religion,...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of...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 by...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favunrite ballad of the common people of England, and tien Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in hia discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words: ' I never heard the old song of Percy...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidftey, in his Discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : • I never heard the old...
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The Suffolk Garland: Or, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads ...

James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 432 pages
..." Chevy Chase" was long the favorite Ballad of the common people ; and Ben Jonson used to say, that he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Dis" course of Poetry," speaks of it in the following words : I never heard the old Song of Piercy...
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An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Knowledge in England: From the ...

James George Barlace - England - 1819 - 408 pages
...what could it worke trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of " Pindare." Ben Johnson used to say he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Add ison observes in the Spectator, Vol. K Number 74. " That the sentiments " in this ballad are extremely...
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