Essays on Song-writing; with a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritEvans, 1810 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... pleasure lavished wit and genius , as well as health and fortune , upon their diversions . Had they lived at a time when taste was more refined , and manners were less licentious , their natural gallantry would have restrained them from ...
... pleasure lavished wit and genius , as well as health and fortune , upon their diversions . Had they lived at a time when taste was more refined , and manners were less licentious , their natural gallantry would have restrained them from ...
Pàgina 9
... a languid , sensual indolence , averse even in its pleasures to any thing that requires attention of the mind . The ear , instead of being an avenue to the heart , expects to be gratified merely as an organ IN GENERAL .
... a languid , sensual indolence , averse even in its pleasures to any thing that requires attention of the mind . The ear , instead of being an avenue to the heart , expects to be gratified merely as an organ IN GENERAL .
Pàgina 20
... pleasure and surprise rather than the sympathetic emotions . It is observable that it is this class alone which answers the idea Mr. Phillips gives of song - writing in his little Essay ; and hence he has been betrayed into a little ...
... pleasure and surprise rather than the sympathetic emotions . It is observable that it is this class alone which answers the idea Mr. Phillips gives of song - writing in his little Essay ; and hence he has been betrayed into a little ...
Pàgina 32
... pleasure to instance the opposite beauty . Michael Drayton , an old English poet , in a pasto- ral song entitled Dowsabel , describes his shepherdess in the following comparisons . Her features all as fresh above , for As is the grasse ...
... pleasure to instance the opposite beauty . Michael Drayton , an old English poet , in a pasto- ral song entitled Dowsabel , describes his shepherdess in the following comparisons . Her features all as fresh above , for As is the grasse ...
Pàgina 61
... in song defam'd , That lip should other pleasures seek : Much , much thy music I approve ; Yet break thy pipe , for more I love , Much more to hear thee speak . My heart forebodes that I'm betray'd , Daphnis , I PASTORAL SONGS . 61.
... in song defam'd , That lip should other pleasures seek : Much , much thy music I approve ; Yet break thy pipe , for more I love , Much more to hear thee speak . My heart forebodes that I'm betray'd , Daphnis , I PASTORAL SONGS . 61.
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