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

...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...

...— not of boors and milkmaids, but of poets. Sidney's clarion phrase rings impulsively to mind : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet." That alone were sufficient were we not over-rich...

...of humour in Sidney's character, as does the passage which follows, ' 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, and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with...

...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...

...of virtue) to virtuous acts? who giveth moral precepts, and natural problems? who sometime raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens in singing...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,67...

...of virtue, to virtuous acts; who gives 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."6 Thus Sidney elevates and justifies the lyric by encompassing didactic poetry, the poetry of...

...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 I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet is it sung but by some blind crowder, wuh...

...contrary praises these tastes as part of a historical progress from feudal barbarity to courtly civility: 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 it is sung but by some blind crowder, with...

...example, praises it in the Defence of Poetry as an example of the power of primitive lyric poetry: "Certainly, 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 it sung but by some blind crowder, with...