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... observe the singu- lar want of uniformity which prevailed even in the spelling of family names , at that early period , will lay no stress whatever upon such a circumstance . Even among the Skene Papers we notice one deed where the name ...
... observe the singu- lar want of uniformity which prevailed even in the spelling of family names , at that early period , will lay no stress whatever upon such a circumstance . Even among the Skene Papers we notice one deed where the name ...
الصفحة 15
... observe the self - compla- cency with which he announces one of his songs " Advice to the City ” — " -as " a famous song , set to a tune of Signor Opdar , so remarkable , that I had the honour to sing it with King Charles at Windsor ...
... observe the self - compla- cency with which he announces one of his songs " Advice to the City ” — " -as " a famous song , set to a tune of Signor Opdar , so remarkable , that I had the honour to sing it with King Charles at Windsor ...
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... observe is a sonnet of Montgomery , Away , vain world , bewitcher of my heart , " the air of which is that of Farewell , dear heart , since thou must needs be gone : 66 66 66 My eyes do show my life is almost done , " with which all our ...
... observe is a sonnet of Montgomery , Away , vain world , bewitcher of my heart , " the air of which is that of Farewell , dear heart , since thou must needs be gone : 66 66 66 My eyes do show my life is almost done , " with which all our ...
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... observation ; but of this more hereafter . As Forbes ' book is the only publication of the seventeenth century to which we could have looked for the preservation of our native Scotish Melodies , we should have rejoiced even to have ...
... observation ; but of this more hereafter . As Forbes ' book is the only publication of the seventeenth century to which we could have looked for the preservation of our native Scotish Melodies , we should have rejoiced even to have ...
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... observe , that without meaning to call in question Mr Cunningham's veracity , and supposing it to be quite possible that a few casual coinci- dences of this nature might have occurred , the slightest consideration of the almost endless ...
... observe , that without meaning to call in question Mr Cunningham's veracity , and supposing it to be quite possible that a few casual coinci- dences of this nature might have occurred , the slightest consideration of the almost endless ...
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الصفحة 308 - Trenchmore, and the CushionDance, and then all the Company dance, Lord and Groom, Lady and Kitchen-Maid, no distinction. . So in our Court, in Queen Elizabeth's time, Gravity and State were kept up. In King James's time things were pretty well. But in King Charles's time, there has been nothing but Trenchmore, and the Cushion-Dance, omnium gatherum tollypolly, hoite come toite.
الصفحة 289 - To favour him in any thing she was not coy. But at last there came commandment For to set the ladies free, With their jewels still adorned, None to do them injury.
الصفحة 112 - But this was soft music compared with that of his heroic daughter, Elizabeth, who, according to Hentzner, used to be regaled during dinner " with twelve trumpets and two kettle-drums; which, together with fifes, cornets, and sidedrums, made the hall ring for half an hour together.
الصفحة 17 - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata: they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
الصفحة 100 - Europe during the latter part of the Sixteenth and beginning of the Seventeenth centuries.
الصفحة 31 - Pultenham says that one Gray grew into good estimation with the Duke of Somerset for making certain merry ballads, whereof one chiefly was the hunte is up, the hunte is up.
الصفحة 16 - Tom observed to me, that after having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, have furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song.
الصفحة 72 - ... remote period, have evinced an enthusiastic admiration for song and poetry ; that the harper was to be found amongst the officers who composed the personal state of the sovereign, and that the country maintained a privileged race of wandering minstrels, who eagerly seized on the prevailing superstitions and romantic legends, and wove them in rude but sometimes very expressive versification into their stories and ballads : who were welcome guests at the gate of every feudal castle, and fondly...
الصفحة 308 - French-more, and the cushion-dance, and then all the company dances, lord and groom, lady and kitchen-maid, no distinction. So in our court, in Queen Elizabeth's time, gravity and state were kept up.
الصفحة 172 - THE low birth and indigent condition of this " * * man placed him in a station in which he ought naturally to have remained unknown to posterity. But what fortune called him to act and to suffer in Scotland, obliges history to descend from its dignity, and to record his adventures.