| 1867 - 878 pages
...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 I fonnd not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with... | |
| 1789 - 508 pages
...of Chevy-Chafe is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonfon ufed to fay he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his difcourfe of poetry, fpeaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old *'.fong of Percy... | |
| 1803 - 420 pages
...The old song of Chevy -Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of...following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by... | |
| 1803 - 434 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Bgn Jonson used to say he had rather have been the 'author of...following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, ' that I found not my heart more moved than with a ' trumpet ; and yet it is sung... | |
| George Walker - 1809 - 396 pages
...these compositions, that in the subsequent debate to which it gave rise, he declared, that he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works, g 4 suasions suasions have then induced him to have borne a part in such a solemn mockery of religion,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of...following words : ' I never heard the old song of Piercy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favunrite ballad of the common people of England, and tien Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in hia discourse of poetry, speaks of it in the following words: ' I never heard the old song of Percy... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...The old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England ; and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidftey, in his Discourse of Poetry, speaks of it in the following words : • I never heard the old... | |
| James Ford - 1818 - 432 pages
..." Chevy Chase" was long the favorite Ballad of the common people ; and Ben Jonson used to say, that he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Dis" course of Poetry," speaks of it in the following words : I never heard the old Song of Piercy... | |
| James George Barlace - 1819 - 408 pages
...what could it worke trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of " Pindare." Ben Johnson used to say he would rather have been the author of it than of all his works. Add ison observes in the Spectator, Vol. K Number 74. " That the sentiments " in this ballad are extremely... | |
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