| Ballads, English - 1765 - 382 pages
...3Additional Nates find C cr re8iont ihid. I never heard the. old fong of Percie and Douglas, that I ; found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet' it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing Qy evill aparelled... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1765 - 406 pages
...Netu ar.d Cerrc3ia*t . Aid, \ never I never heard the old fong of Percie and Douglas, that I found nut my heart moved more than with a trumpet : and yet « it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ftile; which beeing fo cvill aparelled... | |
| History - 1793 - 620 pages
...upon this curious piece of antiquity* I never heard the old foag of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet: and yet 'it' is fung but by fome blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude ttile; which being fo evill aparelled... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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 rude...style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?' For my... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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 rude...style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?1 For my... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...Piercy 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...style; which being ' so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that un' civil age, what would it work trimmed in the gor' geous eloquence qf Pindar?' For... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...u confess mine own barbarousness : I never heard the old " song of Percie 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 rude " style ; which being so evil apparelled in... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...of Piercy 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 rude...style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?' For... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...of Piercy 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 rude...style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar ?' For... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...England, whether by natives or foreigners. I never heard the old 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 blinde crowder, with no rougher voice, than rude style ; which beeing so evill apparelled in the dust... | |
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