Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature, 41. kötetHoughton, Mifflin, 1880 |
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27. oldal - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!
27. oldal - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
55. oldal - He did remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be — " The memory of the wicked shall rot ") ; but I found afterwards that he did go away from school before that time.
57. oldal - But at supper there played one of their servants upon the viallin some Scotch tunes only ; several, and the best of their country, as they seemed to esteem them, by their praising and admiring them : but, Lord ! the strangest ayre that ever I heard in my life, and all of one cast.
27. oldal - ... so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of...
27. oldal - Had another meeting with the Duke of York, at White Hall, on yesterday's work, and made a good advance : and so, being called by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend of hers, being with us. Thence to " The World's End," a drinking-house by the Park ; and there merry, and so home late. And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my...
57. oldal - Took Aldgate Street in my way, and there called upon one Hayward, that makes virginalls, and there did like of a little espinette, and will have him finish it for me; for I had a mind to a small harpsichon, but this takes up less room.
101. oldal - I have seen it performed at different periods in other countries, and well too, but no more to compare with its original performance than light is to darkness. All the original performers had the advantage of the instruction of the composer, who transfused into their minds his inspired meaning.
101. oldal - Regini was working like a mole in the dark to get precedence. The third candidate was Maestro di Cappella to the Court, a clever shrewd man, possessed of what Bacon called, crooked wisdom ; and his claims were backed by three of the principal performers, who formed a cabal not easily put down.
85. oldal - Grebus, the Frenchman, the King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing, nor can play on any instrument, and so cannot compose : and that he will give him a lift out of his place ; and that he and the King are mighty great...