 | 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...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 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;...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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1841 - 836 pages
...song of Percie and Douglas that I found not 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 in the dust and cobwebbe of that nncivill age, what would it work,... | |
 | Richard John King - Ballads, English - 1842 - 352 pages
...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 moved more...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which, being so evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it... | |
 | Charles Knight - Printers - 1844 - 252 pages
...I must confess mine own barbarousness, I never heard the ranes i e due. N eiu BO old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." For those of meaner sort there were the ballads of Robin Hood, " of whom the foolish vulgar... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...Sidney, " the old song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with the sound of a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." Chevy Chase is familiar to us from our infancy : our first poetic feelings were awakened by... | |
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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; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style... 
