A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Bind 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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Side 10
... harmony alone . The sounds essential to the mode are three , and form together one perfect chord . 1. The tonic or key , which is the fundamental note both of the tone and of the mode : See TONE and TONIC . 2. The domi- nant , which is ...
... harmony alone . The sounds essential to the mode are three , and form together one perfect chord . 1. The tonic or key , which is the fundamental note both of the tone and of the mode : See TONE and TONIC . 2. The domi- nant , which is ...
Side 11
... harmony ; yet always returning to those which have been first heard ; this is called modulation . Thence arises a new division of modes into such as are principal and such as are relative ; the principal is that in which the piece ...
... harmony ; yet always returning to those which have been first heard ; this is called modulation . Thence arises a new division of modes into such as are principal and such as are relative ; the principal is that in which the piece ...
Side 16
... harmony and the air successively through several modes , in a manner agreeable to the ear , and conformed to rules . If the different modes be produced by harmony , thence likewise must spring the laws of modulation . These are simple ...
... harmony and the air successively through several modes , in a manner agreeable to the ear , and conformed to rules . If the different modes be produced by harmony , thence likewise must spring the laws of modulation . These are simple ...
Side 17
... harmony too re- mote from the principal sound . As to the second note , re , we may likewise , by favor of a conso ... harmony the diffi- culty is a little increased ; for , as it is necessary that the change of modes should be made at ...
... harmony too re- mote from the principal sound . As to the second note , re , we may likewise , by favor of a conso ... harmony the diffi- culty is a little increased ; for , as it is necessary that the change of modes should be made at ...
Side 54
... harmony of two tempered notes in every possible variety of temperament . See TEMPERAMENT and TONE . It consists of a brass rule placed upon a sound - board , and ac- curately divided into different scales , according to the purposes for ...
... harmony of two tempered notes in every possible variety of temperament . See TEMPERAMENT and TONE . It consists of a brass rule placed upon a sound - board , and ac- curately divided into different scales , according to the purposes for ...
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Side 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Side 172 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Side 61 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Side 129 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Side 38 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Side 107 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
Side 220 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Side 419 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
Side 136 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Side 79 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...