...raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens in singing the lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly I must confess my own barbarousness. I never heard...song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung hut by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice...

...enthusiastic delight in Scripture which existed in their predecessors. If Sir Philip Sidney could say, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; " the great Archbishop of Constantinople exclaims over one of St Paul's Epistles, " I rejoice with...

...t'henj-Chase, of which Sir Philip Sidney wrote: " Certainly 1 must confess mine own barbaroushess, 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 som blind crowder, with no rougher voice...

...was the ballad to which Sir Philip Sidney referred, when he exclaimed, in his "Defence of Poetry," " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." How much more must these stirring strains have moved the hearts of...

...cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. IKd. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. JKd. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Arcadia....

...veraor. given in Percy's " Reliques.11 and perhaps it may be the same of which Sir Philip Sidney 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" (tiddler) '• with...

...poem closes as boldly and as bluntly as it began. It was of this ballad that Sir Philip Sidney said, "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved thai with a trumpet." The minstrelsy of the border counties has greater energy than that of the southern...

...where it is not essential to the antique spirit of the poem. ' Certainly,' says Sir Philip Sydney, ' I must confess my own barbarousness : I never heard...song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung but by some blind crowder,* with no rougher voice...

...disparagement, he meets with chosen arguments, among which we can select his apology for the lyric. "Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness : I never heard...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...

...Of one such ballad Sir Philip Sidney (in The Defence of 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...