...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 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 songb of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart...

...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 I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; " the great Archbishop of Constantinople exclaims...

...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...

...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...

...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)...

...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...

...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 the old 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...

...disparagement, he meets with chosen arguments, among which we can select his apology for the lyric. "Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness :...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...

...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 the lauds of the immortal God;" the epic or heroic, "whose very name, I think, should daunt all backbiters . . . which is not only...