 | 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... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1765 - 382 pages
...3Additional Nates find C cr re8iont ihid. I never heard the. old fong of Percie and Douglas, that I ; found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet' it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing Qy evill aparelled... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1765 - 406 pages
...Netu ar.d Cerrc3ia*t . Aid, \ never I never heard the old fong of Percie and Douglas, that I found nut my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet « it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing fo cvill aparelled... | |
 | 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...style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?" Sir Walter... | |
 | 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: and yet 'it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ttile; which being fo evill aparelled... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...Piercy and Douglas, ' that I found not my heart more moved than with a ' trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder ' with no rougher voice than...so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that un' civil age, what would it work trimmed in the gor' geous eloquence qf Pindar?' For my own part,... | |
 | 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 in... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...England, whether by natives or foreigners. 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 beeing so evill apparelled in the dust... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
