...music, was a good composer, and played well on two or three instruments. Of Herbert it is said that " his chiefest recreation was music, in which heavenly...most excellent master, and did himself compose many hymns and anthems which he set and sung to his lute and viol. He would often say, Religion does not...

...music, was a good composer, and played well on two or three instruments. Of Herbert it is said that "his chiefest recreation was music, in which heavenly...most excellent master, and did himself compose many hymns and anthems which he set and sung to his lute and viol. He would often say, Religion does not...

...every day's sanctity a step towards that kingdom where impurity cannofe enter." His chief relaxation was music, " in which heavenly art he was a most excellent...master, and did himself compose many divine hymns or anthems which he set to music, and sung to his lute or viol." He went regularly to a private " music...

...every day's sanctity a step towards that kingdom where impurity cannot enter. Hischiefestrecreation was music, in which heavenly art he was a most excellent...to his lute or viol : and though he was a lover of retircdness, yet his love to music was such, that he went usually twice every week on certain appointed...

...his weary soul so far above earth, that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven." "His chiet'est recreation was music, in which heavenly art he was...anthems, which he set and sung to his lute or viol." • See Appendix. Many will remember that beautiful passage from Hooker : — " In harmony, the very...

...adjoining his parsonage house. Of his love to music, Izaak Walton says, in his Life of him : ' His chiefcst recreation was music, in which heavenly art he was...retiredness, yet his love to music was such, that be went usually twice every week, on certain appointed days, to the cathedral church in Salisbury ;...

...there, in sweet meditation, or in pious lays, he would refresh his spirit in company with the Master. " His chiefest recreation was music, in which heavenly...to his lute or viol : and, though he was a lover of retiredncss, yet his love to music was such that he went usually twice a week on certain appointed...

...leave us, as soon as a vacancy in some other part of the province offers for him." this, it is said, his chiefest recreation was music, in which heavenly...most excellent master, and did himself compose many hymns and anthems, which he set and sung to his lute or viol. He would often say, religion does not...

...his churchwardens ; the parson blessing the people. " His chiefest recreation," says Izaak Walton, " was music, in which heavenly art he was a most excellent master, and composed many divine hymns and anthems, which he set and sung to his lute or viol ; and though he was...

...and his musical taste was unusually developed. " His chiefest recreation was music," writes Walton, "in which heavenly art he was a most excellent master, and did himself composemany divine hymns and anthems, which he set and sung to his lute or viol ; and though he was...