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... seems , therefore , to be something like a series of contemporaneous historical evidence , tending to shew that great part of the collection had been written out about this time , -a conclusion which is , in some degree , corroborated ...
... seems , therefore , to be something like a series of contemporaneous historical evidence , tending to shew that great part of the collection had been written out about this time , -a conclusion which is , in some degree , corroborated ...
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... seem also , that his declining years had been greatly embittered in conse- quence of several unhappy family differences ; and the circumstance of his having lost his office of Clerk Register , without compensation , in a way , too , not ...
... seem also , that his declining years had been greatly embittered in conse- quence of several unhappy family differences ; and the circumstance of his having lost his office of Clerk Register , without compensation , in a way , too , not ...
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... seems to have been quite " Hail , fellow ! well met , " and it is not a little amusing to 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 ...
... seems to have been quite " Hail , fellow ! well met , " and it is not a little amusing to 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 ...
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... seems to have been at all times a favourite with the reigning powers during an un- usually lengthened career , having died , at an advanced age , in 1723. Addison says of him : - Many an honest gentleman has got a reputation in his ...
... seems to have been at all times a favourite with the reigning powers during an un- usually lengthened career , having died , at an advanced age , in 1723. Addison says of him : - Many an honest gentleman has got a reputation in his ...
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... seems to have been common to the illustrious race from which she was descended , and the anecdote reminds us of a story told somewhere or other , but where we cannot remember , which shews that her uncle , Charles II . , possessed a ...
... seems to have been common to the illustrious race from which she was descended , and the anecdote reminds us of a story told somewhere or other , but where we cannot remember , which shews that her uncle , Charles II . , possessed a ...
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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.