Alexander's Feast ; MacFlecknoe ; and St. Cecilia's DayCharles E. Merrill Company, 1883 - 30 Seiten |
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... century . See Butler : " For though to smatter words of Greek And Latin be the rhetorique Of pedants counted and vainglorious , To smatter French is meritorious . " See Macaulay's History of England . I. chap , iff . 125 [ How far does ...
... century . See Butler : " For though to smatter words of Greek And Latin be the rhetorique Of pedants counted and vainglorious , To smatter French is meritorious . " See Macaulay's History of England . I. chap , iff . 125 [ How far does ...
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... century sooner he would , no doubt , have gladly been enrolled in what Jonson himself called " the tribe of Ben . " If Jonson wrote Masques , Shadwell wrote an opera , Psyche . In course of time Dryden and he became enemies . Dryden had ...
... century sooner he would , no doubt , have gladly been enrolled in what Jonson himself called " the tribe of Ben . " If Jonson wrote Masques , Shadwell wrote an opera , Psyche . In course of time Dryden and he became enemies . Dryden had ...
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... century ) , almost literally translated by Chau- cer in his Secounde Nonnes Tale , she is not so spoken of . All that is said there of music is that " Cantanibus organis illa in corde suo soli Domino cantabat , " etc .; or in Chaucer's ...
... century ) , almost literally translated by Chau- cer in his Secounde Nonnes Tale , she is not so spoken of . All that is said there of music is that " Cantanibus organis illa in corde suo soli Domino cantabat , " etc .; or in Chaucer's ...
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... century . " ( Pop . Cycl . ) That the name is Greek is a strong confirmation of its Greek origin . " The only incident of religious history , " runs a paragraph in Chambers ' Book of Days ( i . 495 ) , connected with the 10th of April ...
... century . " ( Pop . Cycl . ) That the name is Greek is a strong confirmation of its Greek origin . " The only incident of religious history , " runs a paragraph in Chambers ' Book of Days ( i . 495 ) , connected with the 10th of April ...
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... century . It is of course a Classicism . The chorded shell : See Homer's ( so assigned ) Hymn to Mercury , 25-65 . 28. [ What does mortal mean here ? ] See Trench's Select Glossary , s.v. Comp .: " Come , thou mortal wretch . " ( Antony ...
... century . It is of course a Classicism . The chorded shell : See Homer's ( so assigned ) Hymn to Mercury , 25-65 . 28. [ What does mortal mean here ? ] See Trench's Select Glossary , s.v. Comp .: " Come , thou mortal wretch . " ( Antony ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Alexander's Feast Augusta began from Jove Ben Jonson boards 20 cts Bruce and Longville Cecilia Cecilia's Day Charles Cockwood Comp cou'd diapason Dict Dorimant drugget Dryden Dunciad Epsom prose Essay fair music filial dulness Gabriel Harvey Gentlemen of Verona Greek harmony This universal heav'nly harmony Heave her head Hymn Nat Iliad jarring atoms JOHN DRYDEN Jonson Keen Iambicks king L'Allegro Love's Kingdom Loveit lute lyre Mac Flecknoe Macaulay-Essay Maximin MAYNARD'S ENGLISH CLASSIC Mild Anagram Nahum Tate northern dedications notes organs pair Paper 12 cts Paradise Lost passion plays Poems poets Pope praise prince Psyche rais'd raise and quell reign Richard II Satire Sedley Selected sense Shadwell Shadwell's Shakspere Shakspere's Richard shell Sir Formal Trifle Smith's larger Biog song sung sweet Tennyson-The thine thou Timotheus universal frame began Valirian verse violin vocal breath vocal frame warbling lute word write wrote
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Seite 27 - 1. FROM harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began. When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And cou'd not heave her head, 5 The tuneful voice was heard from high : Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Musick's pow'r
Seite 13 - Cou'd swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, 135 And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother.wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He
Seite 12 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glitt'ring temples of their hostile gods. 120 The princes applaud with a furious joy; And the king seyz'da flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Hellen,
Seite 9 - Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly god in triumph comes; 40' Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ; Flush'd with a purple grace He shews his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young,
Seite 10 - check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse ; 60 He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen. Fallen from his high estate, And weltring in his blood.
Seite 13 - And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother.wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He rais'da mortal to the skies : 140 She drew an angel down.
Seite 23 - Thou art my blood, where Jonson has no part " What share have we in nature or in art ? Where did his wit on learning fix a brand And rail at arts he did not understand ? When made he love in Prince Nicander's vein 170 Or swept the dust in Psyche's humble strain
Seite 27 - 10 From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. 15
Seite 29 - The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, ' . 35 Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute. v. Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and desperation, Fury, frantick indignation, Depth of pains and height of passion,
Seite 10 - Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lyes, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, 70