The HarmoniconW. Pinnock, 1828 |
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Pagina 233 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Pagina 71 - when our country's cause provokes to arms, How martial music every bosom warms ! So when the first bold vessel dared the seas, High on the stern the Thracian raised his strain, While Argo saw her kindred trees Descend from Pelion to the main. Transported demigods stood round, And men grew heroes at the sound...
Pagina 71 - The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Hark ! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear ; Now louder, and yet louder rise, And fill with spreading sounds the skies : Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes, In broken air, trembling, the wild music floats : Till by degrees, remote and small, The strains decay, And melt away In a dying, dying fall.
Pagina 129 - ... lip and cheek be bold, But with a calm and stealing pace, Neither too rude nor yet too cold. Play in her beams and crisp her hair With such a gale as wings soft Love, And with so sweet, so rich an air As breathes from the Arabian grove. A breath as...
Pagina 173 - Then, saith she, she is too high; for I myself am neither too high nor too low. Then she asked what kind of exercises she used. I answered, That when I received my dispatch, the Queen was lately come from the Highland hunting: that when her more serious affairs permitted, she was taken up with reading of histories: that sometimes she recreated herself in playing upon the lute and virginals. She asked if she played well. I said, reasonably for a Queen.
Pagina 71 - And gave him back the fair: Thus song could prevail O'er death, and o'er hell, A conquest how hard, and how glorious! Tho' fate had fast bound her With Styx nine times round her, Yet music and love were victorious.
Pagina 173 - ... offence. Then she sat down low upon a cushion, and I upon my knees by her, but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee ; which at first I refused, but she compelled me to take it. She then called for my lady Strafford out of the next chamber, for the queen was alone.
Pagina 173 - That same day after dinner, my Lord of Hunsdon drew me up to a quiet gallery that I might hear some music ; but he said he durst not avow it, where I might hear the queen play ,upon the virginals. After I had hearkened...
Pagina 129 - Winds, whisper gently whilst she sleeps, And fan her with your cooling wings; Whilst she her drops of beauty weeps From pure and yet unrivalled springs.
Pagina 154 - I should rather say, if it was not correctly executed, he would shew no sensation of pleasure. But the most extraordinary circumstance in this case is, that he was most evidently delighted with those passages in which the composer displayed his science in modulating through different keys.