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... music stole With powerful magic . o'er each softening foul , ' Society , and law , and facred order rose . E PODE II . Father of peace and arts ! he first the city built ; No more the neighbour's blood was by his neighbour fpilt ; He ...
... music stole With powerful magic . o'er each softening foul , ' Society , and law , and facred order rose . E PODE II . Father of peace and arts ! he first the city built ; No more the neighbour's blood was by his neighbour fpilt ; He ...
Page 62
... music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran inftantly to his harpsichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative these four ...
... music , but the languid verses of Quin- ault , was immediately animated with the reproach , and as it were feized with a kind of enthusiasm ; he ran inftantly to his harpsichord , and ftriking a few cords , fung in recitative these four ...
Page 104
... MUSIC ODE , they had all exceeded the middle age of man . FROM this short review it appears , that few poets ripened fo early as POPE ; who feems feems literally and strictly to have fulfilled the precept of 104 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... MUSIC ODE , they had all exceeded the middle age of man . FROM this short review it appears , that few poets ripened fo early as POPE ; who feems feems literally and strictly to have fulfilled the precept of 104 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 115
... music by the excellent , but neglected Geminiani , demand a particular regard . The prefaces ? of Dryden would be equally valuable , if he did not fo frequently contradict himself , and advance opinions diametrically oppofite to each ...
... music by the excellent , but neglected Geminiani , demand a particular regard . The prefaces ? of Dryden would be equally valuable , if he did not fo frequently contradict himself , and advance opinions diametrically oppofite to each ...
Page 182
Joseph Warton. ed an example to the contrary . Painting , sculpture , and music , have been seen to ar- rive to a high perfection in Rome , notwith- standing the flavery and fuperftition that reign there : nay , fuperftition itself has ...
Joseph Warton. ed an example to the contrary . Painting , sculpture , and music , have been seen to ar- rive to a high perfection in Rome , notwith- standing the flavery and fuperftition that reign there : nay , fuperftition itself has ...
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