 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...I muft confefs mine own barbaroufhefs, I never heard the old * long of <Piercy and 'Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is it limg but by fbme blind crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile : which being fo evil... | |
 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...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 no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled... | |
 | History - 1793 - 620 pages
...oifervations upon this curious piece of antiquity* I never heard the old foag of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet:...fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ttile; which being fo evill aparelled in theduft and cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it work,... | |
 | History - 1802 - 630 pages
...obfervatioits upon this curious piect of antiquity. I never heard the old long of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet 'it1 is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude llile ; which being Ibevill... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...must " confess mine own 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... | |
 | James George Barlace - England - 1819 - 408 pages
...discourse of poetry, bestows this eulogy on it : "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 but sung by some blind " crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile, which being " so evil... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 586 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,... | |
 | 1831 - 550 pages
...to that of the battle of Otterbourne, " 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 but by some blinde ' crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which being • so well... | |
 | English literature - 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... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...obviously referred to the old ballad — " 1 never heard the old song of Peirce and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it ia sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which beeiug so evil apparelled... | |
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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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style... 
