 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 páginas
...thing." The age in which it was produced was one in which the most accomplished of its courtiers said, " 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... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 páginas
...Hunting at the Cheviot," of which Sir Philip Sidney has remarked, " I never heard the old song of the Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet," — affords an illustration of this. The fight has been carried on with sore slaughter. At length Percy... | |
 | 1853 - 756 páginas
...all his works. Sir Philip Sydnev, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in til* foUowine words : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...rude style ; which being so evil appareled in the dnst and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of PindarT"... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 páginas
...all his works. 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...rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence... | |
 | 1853 - 524 páginas
...his works. 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...with no rougher voice than rude style; which being BO evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous... | |
 | 1853 - 460 páginas
...utterance, helping to restore force and purity of style. " I must confess my own barbarousness," says he. "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." This very " old Song " modernised into our ballad of 'Chevy Chase/ Bishop Percy was the first to publish;... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 páginas
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " 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 sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 páginas
...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " 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 sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...masters, the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his "Defence of Poesy," says, "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet."4 Its subject is this. It was a regulation between those who lived near the borders of Kngland... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 páginas
...heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a tiumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in 1 See Dennis's Original tetters, Fam. Mor. and Crit. 8vo. 1721, p. 166, A seq. — Letter... | |
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