Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 ページ |
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... idea but that of a fucceffion of founds , will here be much difap- pointed in meeting with the names of Prior , Congreve and Landsdown , inftead of Arne , Brent and Tenducci . The midnight roarer of coarfe jeft and obscenity will be ...
... idea but that of a fucceffion of founds , will here be much difap- pointed in meeting with the names of Prior , Congreve and Landsdown , inftead of Arne , Brent and Tenducci . The midnight roarer of coarfe jeft and obscenity will be ...
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... idea which strikes us arifes from its name , fignifying fomething to be fung . We fhall difcufs this a little at large . THE union of mufic with poetry must appear appear extremely natural . We find it to have taken IN GENERAL . 9.
... idea which strikes us arifes from its name , fignifying fomething to be fung . We fhall difcufs this a little at large . THE union of mufic with poetry must appear appear extremely natural . We find it to have taken IN GENERAL . 9.
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... idea of mu- fic prevails , it fignifies no more than a fet of words calculated for adaptation to a tune ; if poetry be the principal object , it is a species species of poetical compofition regulated by peculiar laws , and IN GENERAL .
... idea of mu- fic prevails , it fignifies no more than a fet of words calculated for adaptation to a tune ; if poetry be the principal object , it is a species species of poetical compofition regulated by peculiar laws , and IN GENERAL .
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... idea , as to make it an effential circumftance , that by a regularly returning measure it be capable of being fet to a tune . A SONG as a poetical compofition may be defined , a short piece , divided into re- turning portions of meafure ...
... idea , as to make it an effential circumftance , that by a regularly returning measure it be capable of being fet to a tune . A SONG as a poetical compofition may be defined , a short piece , divided into re- turning portions of meafure ...
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... idea of the mufic of founds without words , and they appear feldom or never to have used vocal mufic without accompanyment with inftrumen- tal . The lyre was the favourite inftrument for this purpose , and hence that fpecies of poetry ...
... idea of the mufic of founds without words , and they appear feldom or never to have used vocal mufic without accompanyment with inftrumen- tal . The lyre was the favourite inftrument for this purpose , and hence that fpecies of poetry ...
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94 ページ - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
53 ページ - Till, quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride, And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. " But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay.
157 ページ - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
171 ページ - OR ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part : Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
50 ページ - The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest : " And whence, unhappy youth," he cried, " The sorrows of thy breast ? " From better habitations spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove?
93 ページ - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green But a sweet-brier entwines it around. Not my fields, in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
47 ページ - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
71 ページ - And when she looks down on my grave, Let her own that her shepherd was true. Then to her new love let her go. And deck her in golden array ; Be...
63 ページ - That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days ; Why didst thou...
57 ページ - Ah, Colin ! give not her thy vows, Vows due to me alone : Nor thou, fond maid, receive his kiss, Nor think him all thy own.