 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...  The Historic Lands of England - Page 142by Bernard Burke - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...barbarousness. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I fonnd 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 uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 586 pages
...never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I have 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 cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...a beautiful critique in the Spectator, No. 70 and 74, is confound 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 cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1839 - 264 pages
...never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I have 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 cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 608 pages
...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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 606 pages
...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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1841 - 836 pages
...song of Percie and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet 'tis sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude stile ; which being so evill apparelled in the dust and cobwebbe of that nncivill age, what would it... | |
 | Richard John King - Ballads, English - 1842 - 352 pages
...Defence of Poetry, " the olde song of Percie 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 evill apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivill age, what would it work... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Music - 1842 - 196 pages
...I never heard the old song of ' Piercy 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 stile." Is not then Music an infinite world, within whose atmosphere the weariest spirit, surcharged... | |
 | Charles Knight - Printers - 1844 - 252 pages
...ranes i e due. N eiu BO 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." For those of meaner sort there were the ballads of Robin Hood, " of whom the foolish vulgar make lewd... | |
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