| 1867 - 878 Seiten
...reward of virtue, to virtuous acts, who gives moral precepts and natural problems, who sometimes ruiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens in singing...lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I fonnd not my heart moved... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 Seiten
...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 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... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 Seiten
...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 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... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 Seiten
...well accorded verse giveth " praise, the reward of virtue, to virtuous acts ? who giveth' ** moral precepts and natural problems, who- sometimes " raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens,, in sing" ing the lauds of the immortal God. Certainly I must " confess mine own barbarousness : I never... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 Seiten
...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 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... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 Seiten
...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 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... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 Seiten
...chapter in the history of ancient poetry. " Certainly," says the brave knight, " I must confess my own barbarousness; 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... | |
| 1822 - 788 Seiten
...all his works Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : ' at; for which a less eminent droll would have been sent to the galleys. Tr more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder wit h no rougher voice than... | |
| 1824 - 284 Seiten
...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 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... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 Seiten
...in which he triumphantly sums up this division of his subject. In speaking of the lyric, he says, " Certainly, I must confess mine own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas" — (the ballad of Chevy Chase)—" that I found not my heart moved more than with... | |
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