A Score of Famous Composers

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T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1891 - 540 páginas
 

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Página 326 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Página 108 - I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself!
Página 45 - Here lies HENRY PURCELL, Esq., who left this life, and is gone to that blessed place where only his harmony can be exceeded.
Página 35 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Página 28 - In singing of Psalms, the voice is to be tunably and gravely ordered. But the chief care must be to sing with understanding, and with grace in the heart, making melody unto the Lord.
Página 41 - Musick is yet but in its nonage, a forward child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England when the masters of it shall find more encouragement. 'Tis now learning Italian, which is its best master, and studying a little of the French air, to give it somewhat more of gayety and fashion. Thus being further from the sun we are of later growth than our neighbour countries, and must be content to shake off our barbarity by degrees.
Página 112 - Total eclipse — no sun, no moon. All dark amid the blaze of noon.
Página 35 - Of all the instruments that are, None with the viol can compare : Mark how the strings their order keep, With a whet whet whet and a sweep sweep sweep ; But above all this still abounds, With a zingle zingle zing, and a zit zan zounds.
Página 109 - For the relief of the prisoners in the several gaols, and for the support of Mercer's Hospital, in Stephen's Street, and of the charitable infirmary on the Inn's Quay, on Monday, the 12th of April, will be performed at the Musick Hall in Fishamble Street, Mr.
Página 39 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.

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