| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 páginas
...Defense of Poesy," writes thus respecting this ancient ballad :— " 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 (te even when it is sung) but by some blind crowder (fiddler), with no rougher voice than rude... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 páginas
...branches, as it was established in England, whether by natives or foreigners. or ANCIENT POETRY, ETC. " I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style : which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it work, trimmed in... | |
| 1860 - 452 páginas
...effort of good, great, and wise men. Sir Philip Sidney wrote,— "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... | |
| 1860 - 880 páginas
...and wise men. Sir Philip Sidney wrote, — "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that 1 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... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 páginas
...Percy and Douglas," (that is, Chevy Chace, or the Battle of Otterburn, equally beloved by Ben Jonfon,) "that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is fung but by fome blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 páginas
...and Douglas," (that is, Chevy Chace, or the Battle of Otterburn, equally beloved by Ben Jonfon,) " that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is fung but by fome blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude ftyle ; which being fo evil apparelled... | |
| Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 páginas
...Poesy) wrote, '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 than with a trumpet.' Whatever it was - the appeal to local patriotism or the values of the two contestants - that appealed... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1983 - 580 páginas
...the immortal God? Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, 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 sung but by some blind crowder,67 with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil... | |
| Nick Groom - 1999 - 310 páginas
...realm of contemplation rather than an antiquarian stew. Percy's very citation of Sit Philip Sidney, 'I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas,...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet, ' emphasizes both the nostalgic peal of the 'old song', and the sentimental appeal to bodily sensations.... | |
| William A. Sessions - 2003 - 472 páginas
...peascod time" is set to this tune. Cf. Sidney's Defense of Poesie,m: '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 sung but by some blind crowder, wuh no rougher voice than tude style.' that they should be less... | |
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