The Harmonicon, Volumen 1W. Pinnock, 1823 |
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... living only by blood , and desiring to drink it out of the skulls of their enemies . From these frightful dens came the barbarous horde which had entered the softer climate , carrying chains and death to the two tender lovers whose ...
... living only by blood , and desiring to drink it out of the skulls of their enemies . From these frightful dens came the barbarous horde which had entered the softer climate , carrying chains and death to the two tender lovers whose ...
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... living or unborn : " Let your air , " said he " be good , and your composition , whatever it be , will be so like- wise , and will assuredly delight . It is the soul of music , — the life , the spirit , the essence of a composition ...
... living or unborn : " Let your air , " said he " be good , and your composition , whatever it be , will be so like- wise , and will assuredly delight . It is the soul of music , — the life , the spirit , the essence of a composition ...
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... living interest , though dying , for his beloved coun- the disciples , of his sublime excellencies in the art in try ; and sometimes exhausted his little strength in inquiries which he was the most excellent . He wished for his after ...
... living interest , though dying , for his beloved coun- the disciples , of his sublime excellencies in the art in try ; and sometimes exhausted his little strength in inquiries which he was the most excellent . He wished for his after ...
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... living by it , to mind these trifles , but I don't want to were unconsciously preluding the finest modulations on a be so exact . ' " keyed instrument ; and with a laugh that indicated some humorous recollection , he would say , ' I was ...
... living by it , to mind these trifles , but I don't want to were unconsciously preluding the finest modulations on a be so exact . ' " keyed instrument ; and with a laugh that indicated some humorous recollection , he would say , ' I was ...
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... living , to write the greater , as Mozart was , being the youngest , to write the lesser part of the music for that day . In the passion week of this year , the Mozarts visited Rome , where they heard the celebrated Miserere , which the ...
... living , to write the greater , as Mozart was , being the youngest , to write the lesser part of the music for that day . In the passion week of this year , the Mozarts visited Rome , where they heard the celebrated Miserere , which the ...
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Página 187 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Página 178 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, 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 raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Página 72 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Página 60 - HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft.
Página 116 - Total eclipse — no sun, no moon. All dark amid the blaze of noon.
Página 41 - Every limb, and every finger, contributes to the part he acts, insomuch that a deaf man might go along with him in the sense of it. There is scarce a beautiful posture in an old statue which he does not plant himself in, as the different circumstances of the story give occasion for it. He performs the most ordinary action in a manner...
Página 87 - Italian masters, principally to bring the seriousness and gravity of that sort of musick into vogue and reputation among our countrymen, whose humour 'tis time now should begin to loath the levity and balladry of our neighbours.
Página 116 - He remained in Ireland about nine months, where his finances began to mend, an earnest, as it were, of the more favourable reception which he experienced on returning to...
Página 196 - These two carried on a conversation in the paperbook about bank stock. The gentleman, as if by chance, struck the keys of the open piano, beside which they were sitting, gradually began to run over one of Beethoven's own compositions, made a thousand errors, and speedily blundered one passage so thoroughly, that the composer condescended to stretch out his hand and put him right. It was enough ; the hand was on the piano ; his companion immediately left him, on some pretext, and joined the rest of...
Página 42 - Parson's-green, where he settled Mrs. Robinson and her mother. They never lived under the same roof, till the earl, being seized with a violent fit of illness, solicited her to attend him at Mount Bevis, near Southampton, which she refused with firmness, but upon condition that, though still denied to take his name, she might be permitted to wear her wedding-ring; to which, finding her inexorable, he at length consented. " His haughty spirit was still reluctant to the making a declaration that would...