| Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 sivua
...undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." . . . b. " 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." . . . c. " But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists,... | |
| McGill University - 1865 - 332 sivua
...Chevy chase is the favorite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say that he had rather have been the author of it than of all...poetry, speaks of it in the following words : " I have never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 sivua
...of every noble family on either side of the border lay on the bloody greensward.'' Chambers. JKf" " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." Sir Philip Sidney. Chicaneau (she'ka'no'). A litigious tradesman in... | |
| 1865 - 886 sivua
...Heavens, in singing the lauds of the 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 than with a trumpet, and yet it is sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 sivua
...vice, fait de la honte la trompette de l'infamie'? » A la fin il rassemble ses raisons, et l'ac1. 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 somc blind crowder, with no rougher voice... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1868 - 702 sivua
...Chevy Chase,' " he writes, " is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works." Then he quetes Sir Philip Sidney's famous words ; and then adds, " For my own part I am so professed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 sivua
...one in which the most accomplished of • ' Edin. Review,1 July, 18iO, p. 409. its courtiers said, " 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... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1868 - 704 sivua
...Chase,' " he writes, " is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson iised to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works." Then he quotes Sir Philip Sidney's famous words ; and then adds, " For my own part I am so professed... | |
| John S. Roberts - 1868 - 674 sivua
...Sir Philip Sidney says, in his " Defence of Poesy," " 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 it is sung by some blind crowder.j with no rougher voice than... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 sivua
...which holdeth -*• children from play, and old men from the chimney c orner. The Dcfence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. The Defence of Poesy. There is no man suddenly either excellently good,... | |
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