 | Charles Knight - Book industries and trade Great Britain History - 1854 - 350 pages
...immortal God ? Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more...with a trumpet, and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style." For those of meaner sort there were the ballads of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...which that posterity should be possessed of, he deemed their interest :"t or from dedication to * [" I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence of Poeiie.— **•! Monarch or Pontiff, in which the honor given was asserted in equipoise... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...which that posterity should be possessed of, he deemed their interest :"t or from dedication to * [" I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas that...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Defence of Poesie. — JSd] Monarcli or Pontiff^ in which the honor given was asserted in equipoise... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...influence of the popular minstrelsy, is apparent from that well-known sentence of Sir Philip Sydney : "I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...influence of the popular minstrelsy, is apparent from that well-known sentence of Sir Philip Sydney : "I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...which, in a well-known passage of his ' Defence of Poesy,' he said, "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."* These antiquated poems supply illustration of the story and character of Hotspur, by showing that the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Arcadia. Book i. There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil. They are never... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...influence of the popular minstrelsy, is apparent from that well-known sentence of Sir Philip Sydney : " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blinde crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 286 pages
...Certainly I must confess mine own barbarousness ; I never heard the old aong of Piercy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet it is sung but by some blind crowdcr, with no rougher voice than rude stile." A powerful argument of the noble, original and wonderful... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...to satisfy the longings of his imagination, said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." The martial state of society among the border-population seems to have fostered a minstrelsy distinguished... | |
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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... 
