...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...

...vertue, to vertuous acts who giveth morral pre»cepls, and natural Problemes, who some times rayseth up his »voice to the height of the Heavens, in singing the laudos of the iiimntortal God." Indien zich daarin te verlustigen zonde is, bekent hij, dan behoor...

...Crowder, a fiddler ; or public singer. A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little. — Ben Jonson. 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 but sung by some blind crowder. —...

...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 than with a trumpet." Interesting as these old English ballads are, the...

...of virtue, to virtuous acts ? who giveth moral precepts and natural problems ? who sometimes raiseth t a pure : her whiteness U but an excremental whiteness...which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Sp mine own barbarousness ; I America is hero or nowhere. The situation that has not its duty, its ideal,...

...make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen ; the poets only deliver a golden.' ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.' In passages such as this we feel the fulness of...

...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...

...polishing and detrimental re-writing ; yet Sir Philip Sidney, a better man than Addison, had said, " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ;" and a wiser than the bishop, Fletcher of Saltoun,...

...his works[?J. Sir Philip Sidney, in his Defence of Poesie, speaks of it in the following words : ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is it sung but by some blind Crowder with...

...will recall to the minds of some that fine saying of Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defence of Poesy " : "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...