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Side 89
... adapted to musical notes , and there is undoubted evi- dence that a great part of the religious service of the Hebrews was performed by both vocal and instrumental music . If we look into the history of other nations , we shall find all ...
... adapted to musical notes , and there is undoubted evi- dence that a great part of the religious service of the Hebrews was performed by both vocal and instrumental music . If we look into the history of other nations , we shall find all ...
Side 90
... adapted to a rude music ; and that the common subjects of these songs were love and war . Hence I think we have very clearly the ori gin not only of poetry , but even of numbers or metre . Music was early found to be the most ...
... adapted to a rude music ; and that the common subjects of these songs were love and war . Hence I think we have very clearly the ori gin not only of poetry , but even of numbers or metre . Music was early found to be the most ...
Side 97
... adapted to tender expression . # Both the ten and eight syllable verses are generally considered as iambics ; but some short poems have only seven syllables , and these may be regarded as trochaic , with a long syllable or double rhyme ...
... adapted to tender expression . # Both the ten and eight syllable verses are generally considered as iambics ; but some short poems have only seven syllables , and these may be regarded as trochaic , with a long syllable or double rhyme ...
Side 141
... adapted to the times in which they were composed . Virgil , and the modern writers of pastoral , were altogether differently situated . They de scribed scenes which no longer existed , and which consequently wanted that interest which ...
... adapted to the times in which they were composed . Virgil , and the modern writers of pastoral , were altogether differently situated . They de scribed scenes which no longer existed , and which consequently wanted that interest which ...
Side 195
... adapted . The former was by the Latins emphatically called elegiac verse , and from its sweetness , was adopted in many compositions not strictly ele- giac , such as Ovid's epistles ; while , on the con- trary , we have many real ...
... adapted . The former was by the Latins emphatically called elegiac verse , and from its sweetness , was adopted in many compositions not strictly ele- giac , such as Ovid's epistles ; while , on the con- trary , we have many real ...
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