Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritR.H. Evans, 1810 - 352 pages |
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... natural gallantry would have restrained them from offering an outrage to those , whom they most wished for readers and admirers . I hope I have now said enough to inti- mate for what class of readers this Work is calculated . The soft ...
... natural gallantry would have restrained them from offering an outrage to those , whom they most wished for readers and admirers . I hope I have now said enough to inti- mate for what class of readers this Work is calculated . The soft ...
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... nature learn'd to languish ; And sicken'd with delightful anguish : Receive him , artless yet and young Refine his air , and smooth his tongue ; Conduct him thro ' your fav'rite bowers , Enrich'd with xxvi ORIGIN OF SONG - WRITING .
... nature learn'd to languish ; And sicken'd with delightful anguish : Receive him , artless yet and young Refine his air , and smooth his tongue ; Conduct him thro ' your fav'rite bowers , Enrich'd with xxvi ORIGIN OF SONG - WRITING .
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... precision and accuracy to our ideas . on this subject . It is contained in a paper of the Guardian , written by Mr. Phillips . In attempting the task of determining with exactness the nature of song - writ ing , ON SONG - WRITING.
... precision and accuracy to our ideas . on this subject . It is contained in a paper of the Guardian , written by Mr. Phillips . In attempting the task of determining with exactness the nature of song - writ ing , ON SONG - WRITING.
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... nature of song - writ ing , and the various distinctions of which it is susceptible , together with the specific excellence of each , I find it therefore necessary to go far back into the origin of poetry in general , and to recur to ...
... nature of song - writ ing , and the various distinctions of which it is susceptible , together with the specific excellence of each , I find it therefore necessary to go far back into the origin of poetry in general , and to recur to ...
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... nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . Ossian and Theocritus will afford com- plete instances of the first poetry in its two different branches . Mingling storms , roaring torrents , swelling oceans ...
... nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . Ossian and Theocritus will afford com- plete instances of the first poetry in its two different branches . Mingling storms , roaring torrents , swelling oceans ...
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