 | Charles Knight - Book industries and trade Great Britain History - 1854 - 350 pages
...of virtue, to virtuous acts ? who giveth moral precepts and natural problems? who sometimes raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens, in singing...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... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : — ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Orowder with no... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...of virtue, to virtuous acts 1 who giveth moral precepts and natural problems ? who sometimes raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens, in singing...the lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly, I must confers mine own barbarousuess, I never heard the old songt of Percy and Douglas, that I found not... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...spirit of Sir Philip Sydney, and of 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... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet t is sung by some blind crowder with uo... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet." 4 Its subject is this. It was a regulation between... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...the more it is read the more it is admired. Sir Philip Sidney, in his u Defence of Poesy," says, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet.'' * Its subject is this. It was a regulation between... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 594 pages
...all that was chivalric in the field and elegant in letters. In the " Defence of Poesie," he says : "Certainly I must confess my 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 but... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pages
...of virtue, to virtuous acts ? who giveth moral precepts and natural problems ? who sometimes raised) up his voice to the height of the heavens, in singing...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... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...of the olden time is even now the 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... | |
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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... 
