Tracts, Philogical, Critical, and Miscellaneous: Consisting of Pieces Many Before Published Separately, Several Annexed to the Works of Learned Friends, and Others Now First Printed from the Author's Manuscripts, Volume 2White, 1790 |
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... better than a few ftraggling paffages of claffic authors relating to mufic , and a few flight remarks added to them . Vide Essay , third edition , p . 135. Printed for L. Davis , 1775 . VOL . II . Horace , B Horace , Serm . I. 111. 6 ...
... better than a few ftraggling paffages of claffic authors relating to mufic , and a few flight remarks added to them . Vide Essay , third edition , p . 135. Printed for L. Davis , 1775 . VOL . II . Horace , B Horace , Serm . I. 111. 6 ...
Pagina 12
... better melody , and more variety ; and perhaps thofe odes , and hymns and chorufes , where the metre is latent , and lefs pleafing to our ears when we repeat them , had more artful tunes adapted to them , than the Sapphic and Alcaic ...
... better melody , and more variety ; and perhaps thofe odes , and hymns and chorufes , where the metre is latent , and lefs pleafing to our ears when we repeat them , had more artful tunes adapted to them , than the Sapphic and Alcaic ...
Pagina 13
... bad feems good , ' till you get acquainted with better . Yet one confiderable advantage , -which arofe even from the fimplicity of the ancient tunes , and which greatly fet off their concert of vocal and inftrumental which LETTER S. 13.
... bad feems good , ' till you get acquainted with better . Yet one confiderable advantage , -which arofe even from the fimplicity of the ancient tunes , and which greatly fet off their concert of vocal and inftrumental which LETTER S. 13.
Pagina 27
... better grace ; and , instead of being always oc- cupied in compofing fongs and tunes , and in adapting founds and words to each other , to study Moral Modulations , and the art of keeping our actions confonant to the dictates of reafon ...
... better grace ; and , instead of being always oc- cupied in compofing fongs and tunes , and in adapting founds and words to each other , to study Moral Modulations , and the art of keeping our actions confonant to the dictates of reafon ...
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... better reception of this apology , I will tell you what the truth of the matter is . When I received the first part , and found it was printed for Whifton , I was in doubt whether it came from the Printer , or from the Author ; which ...
... better reception of this apology , I will tell you what the truth of the matter is . When I received the first part , and found it was printed for Whifton , I was in doubt whether it came from the Printer , or from the Author ; which ...
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