...thing." The age in which it was produced was one in which the most accomplished of its courtiers said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...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...

...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 same blind Crowder with no rougher voice than...

...been, as Chevy Chase was to Sir Philip Sydney, such, that I might say with him, " I never heard it, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ;" and at this day a picture of the scene, which I saw years ago, when I was a mere boy — I think, by Etty...

...for praising the influence of the Ballad-Singer? What says the wise, virtuous, gentle Sidney ? — " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet, and yet is sung but by some blind crowder, with no mightier voice than rude style." Napoleon lost Waterloo,...

...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...found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.' Whatever it was - the appeal to local patriotism or the values of the two contestants - that appealed...

...the heavens in singing the lauds of the immortal God? Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder,67 with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil...

...are unpretentious; he likes the rudest of poetry, the old song of Percy and Douglas, "and yet is it sung by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style" (97). So amiable is he that he can graciously condescend to the philosopher and historian—those curmudgeons!—with...

...nephew, the Earl of Oxford's "In peascod time" is set to this tune. Cf. Sidney's Defense of Poesie,m: 'I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, wuh no rougher voice than tude style.' that they should be less...

...action, to own up to, but still he had in his Defence of Poesie (1595) to confess (his word) that he "never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that...not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." And for John Dryden, well-schooled neoclassical poet and critic, the classic formulae for drama's emotional...

...antiquarian stew. Percy's very citation of Sit Philip Sidney, 'I never heard the old song of Percie and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet, ' emphasizes both the nostalgic peal of the 'old song', and the sentimental appeal to bodily sensations....