 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; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that...  Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison - Pàgina 337per Joseph Addison - 1906 - 360 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1847 - 458 pàgines
...portion of the community, in the gamesj which have » " I never heard the old song of Percie and Donglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet . and yet it is snng but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which being so well apparalled... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pàgines
...more sustained dignity of language and of metre ? Distant 7 [" I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence nfPoesie. ED.]. may the period be, but whenever the time shall come, when all his works shall... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 572 pàgines
...more sustained dignity of language and of metre ? Distant 7 [" I never beard the old song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence i>f Poesie. ED.] may the period be, but whenever the time shall come, when all his works shall... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1848 - 268 pàgines
...cultivated verses of modern poetry. " I never heard," said Sir Philip 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... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 pàgines
...Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old song of Pieroy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile." A powerful argument of the noble, original and wonderful efficacy of true poetry, is to be... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pàgines
...there quoted, which obviously referred to the old ballad — " I never heard the old song of Peirce 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 beeiug so evil apparelled in the dust... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 pàgines
...Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousneas ; I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it ia sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile." A powerful argument of the... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1850 - 454 pàgines
...portion of the community, in the games} which have * " I never heard the old song of Percie and Dmglot, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung bat by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which being so well apparelled... | |
 | East India college - 1850 - 368 pàgines
...the other side of the question. Poetry excites to action ; hear the chivalrous Sir Philip Sydney: "I never heard the old song of Percy 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pàgines
...was the Cheviot hills. Of this ballad. Sir Phillip Sydney, in his 'Defense of Poetry,' remarks, 'I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with the sound of a trumpet.' The spelling of the original poem is now so nearly obsolete... | |
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