A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir George Grove...with Appendix by J. A. Fuller Maitland...

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Macmillan & Company, 1890

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366. oldal - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
445. oldal - ... during the latter part of the last century and the beginning of the present.
74. oldal - French-horns, some like peasants, and a troop of harlequins and scaramouches in the little open temple on the mount On the canal was a sort of gondola, adorned with flags and streamers, and filled with music, rowing about All round the outside of the amphitheatre were shops, filled with Dresden china, japan, &c.
366. oldal - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just.
281. oldal - The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy. And they say there are four or five of them that can do as much.
47. oldal - Author, he has faithfully endeavour'da just imitation of the most fam'd Italian Masters; principally, to bring the seriousness and gravity of that sort of Musick into vogue, and reputation among our Country-men, whose humor, 'tis time now, should begin to loath the levity, and balladry of our neighbours...
16. oldal - Popular Music of the Olden Time: A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. With Short Introductions to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Also a Short Account of the Minstrels.
74. oldal - The present folly is late hours. Everybody tries to be particular by being too late ; and, as everybody tries it, nobody is so. It is the fashion now to go to Ranelagh two hours after it is over. You may not believe this, but it is literal. The music ends at ten; the company go at twelve.
314. oldal - She was a pale woman. Her face, a thoroughly German one, though plain, was pleasing from the intensity of expression which her large features and deep, tender eyes conveyed. She had profuse fair hair, the value of which she thoroughly understood, delighting in moments of great emotion to fling it loose with the wild vehemence of a Mtenad. Her figure was superb, though full, and she rejoiced in its display.
48. oldal - Sisters, which walking hand in hand, support each other; As Poetry is the harmony of Words, so Musick is that of Notes; and as Poetry is a Rise above Prose and Oratory, so is Musick the exaltation of Poetry.

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