...thy own Phoebus, reigns,1 (m) Joys in my jigs, and dances in my chains. But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence, If Music meanly borrows aid from Sense. Strong in new Arms, lo ! Giant HANDEL stands, «s Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's...

...exposed to the bitter arrows of eighteenth-century wit. Pope commemorated him in the " Dunciad : " "Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands." All the diaries and letters and histories of that day are full of him. He is described as "a tall portly...

...Phoebus, thy own Phoebus, reigns, Joys in my jigs, and dances in my chains. But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense...hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he conies, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, empress; or you sleep no more —...

...Phoebus, thy own Phoebus, reigns6, Joys in my jigst and dances in my chains. But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence, If Music meanly borrows aid from Sense. Strong in new Arms, lo! Giant HANDEL6 stands, 65 Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he...

...in Pope's celebrated lines : " Strong in arms, lo ! giant Handel stands Like bold Briareus, with his hundred hands, To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars' drums. Arrest him, empress, or you sleep no more — She heard : — and drove him to the Hibernian...

...addressed to her by an unprepossessing phantom, named Italian Opera: "But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense;...rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunder follows Mars' drums, Arrest him, Dulness, or you sleep no more; — She heard, and drove him...

...either hand," is pleading her cause before the throne of Dulness : — " 'But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence If Music meanly borrows aid from sense....Handel stands Like bold Briareus with a hundred hands ; 1 To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest...

...manner adapted even to the feeblest intellects. Already Pope in 1742 compared Handel with Briareus. " Strong in new arms, lo ! Giant HANDEL stands, Like bold Briareus with his hundred hands." At the time of Rinaldo (1711) Addison accused Handel of delighting in noise. between...

...manner adapted even to the feeblest intellects. Already Pope in 1742 compared Handel with Briareus. " Strong in new arms, lo ! Giant HANDEL stands, Like bold Briareus with his hundred hands." At the time of Rinaldo (1711) Addison accused Handel of delighting in noise. between...

...göttlichen Thron der Dummheit in großer Aufregung flehend deklamiert : „But soon, ah soon, Eebellion will commence If Music meanly borrows aid from sense....Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ,ar you sleep no more — ' She heard, and drove him to the Hibernian shore." „Musik, die sich mit...