Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - Всего страниц: 286 |
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... fubject bad novelty to recommended it , and was fuited to my inclinations , I was incited to pursue it to a length which feemed to render it lawful for me to take the title of an Effayift , instead of a mere compiler . If the attempts ...
... fubject bad novelty to recommended it , and was fuited to my inclinations , I was incited to pursue it to a length which feemed to render it lawful for me to take the title of an Effayift , instead of a mere compiler . If the attempts ...
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... but one profeffed criticism on their compofition ; and this , though elegant and ingenious , is both too fhort and too fuperficial to give precision and and accuracy to our ideas on this fubject . It .2 ON SONG - WRITING.
... but one profeffed criticism on their compofition ; and this , though elegant and ingenious , is both too fhort and too fuperficial to give precision and and accuracy to our ideas on this fubject . It .2 ON SONG - WRITING.
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... fubject . It is contained in a paper of the Guardian written by Mr. Phillips . In attempting the task of determining with exactness the nature of fong - writing , and the various diftinctions of which it is fufceptible , together with ...
... fubject . It is contained in a paper of the Guardian written by Mr. Phillips . In attempting the task of determining with exactness the nature of fong - writing , and the various diftinctions of which it is fufceptible , together with ...
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... fubject from which the particular topic is taken is not reftricted ; but it has been found that emotions of tenderness and gaiety are peculiarly adapted to fong- writing . Cuftom therefore has almoft folely confined the general fubject ...
... fubject from which the particular topic is taken is not reftricted ; but it has been found that emotions of tenderness and gaiety are peculiarly adapted to fong- writing . Cuftom therefore has almoft folely confined the general fubject ...
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... fubject , but merely from the circumftance of its accompanyment with mufic : thus Horace briefly defines it " verba focianda chordis . " But this circumftance will in fome measure influence the choice of a fubject , as it is evident ...
... fubject , but merely from the circumftance of its accompanyment with mufic : thus Horace briefly defines it " verba focianda chordis . " But this circumftance will in fome measure influence the choice of a fubject , as it is evident ...
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Anacreon antient ballad beauty becauſe blefs bleft bluſh bofom breaſt CATULLUS CELIA charms cheek CHLOE circumſtance compariſon compofition cruel cry'd dear defcription defire deſpair Engliſh epigram expreffion eyes face fair falfe fancy fatire feek fentiment fhade fhall fhepherd fhould figh fimple fimplicity fince fing firft firſt fmiles foft fome fond fong forrows foul fpread ftill fubject fuch fung furprize fwain fweet gentle give grace heart itſelf know my love laft lefs lov'd lover Lyric Lyric poetry maid meaſure moſt mufic muft muſt nature ne'er nymph o'er paffion paftoral pain paſt PHYLLIS pieces pity plain pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poetical poetry praiſe purpoſe racter reft rofe Sappho ſcene ſhall ſhe SOAME JENYNS ſpeak ſpring ſtill ſtory ſtrain ſweet taſte tears tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Twas vows weep whofe wiſh youth
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Стр. 53 - Till, quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride, And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. " But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay.
Стр. 86 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Стр. 47 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Стр. 84 - To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away, Is happy, nor heard to repine. Thus, widely remov'd from the fair, Where my vows, my devotion I owe ; Soft hope is the relique I bear, And my solace wherever I go.
Стр. 164 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone...
Стр. 86 - With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love To prune the wild branches away. From the plains, from the woodlands and groves. What strains of wild melody flow!
Стр. 57 - Ah, Colin ! give not her thy vows, Vows due to me alone : Nor thou, fond maid, receive his kiss, Nor think him all thy own.
Стр. 108 - A sigh or tear, perhaps, she'll give, But love on pity cannot live. Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And love with love is only paid.
Стр. 54 - Twas Edwin's self that press'd. « Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, ^ ^ Restored to love and thee. « Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign ; And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine? « No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Стр. 87 - Are the groves and the valleys as gay, And the shepherds as gentle as ours ? The groves may perhaps be as fair, And the face of the valleys as fine ; The swains may in manners compare, But their love is not equal to mine.