National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written : a Lyric and National Study for the Times : with a Letter to the Saturday ReviewRudd & Carleton, 1862 - 176 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... the disposal of the committee would be acceptable to many persons ; and therefore I have given a few days to the preparation of this little book . For it I only am ix responsible . I have not the right , had viii ...
... the disposal of the committee would be acceptable to many persons ; and therefore I have given a few days to the preparation of this little book . For it I only am ix responsible . I have not the right , had viii ...
Pagina 19
... person would ever dream of regarding it as a national hymn . Its words , as all know who have ever heard them , are mere childish burlesque ; and its air , if air it must be called , is as comical as its words , and can hardly be ...
... person would ever dream of regarding it as a national hymn . Its words , as all know who have ever heard them , are mere childish burlesque ; and its air , if air it must be called , is as comical as its words , and can hardly be ...
Pagina 25
... person , in speech , in habit , in mind . John Bull is a creature of the last century . Before the reign of Anne no trace of him is to be found in history . The least gracious part of his character , that with which he seems to take a ...
... person , in speech , in habit , in mind . John Bull is a creature of the last century . Before the reign of Anne no trace of him is to be found in history . The least gracious part of his character , that with which he seems to take a ...
Pagina 36
... persons entirely unacquainted with Bull's compositions , which are formal , dry , and dreary to the last degree , besides being " impossible " enough to please Dr. Johnson . * * The story told of him by Wood , in his Fasti Oxonienses ...
... persons entirely unacquainted with Bull's compositions , which are formal , dry , and dreary to the last degree , besides being " impossible " enough to please Dr. Johnson . * * The story told of him by Wood , in his Fasti Oxonienses ...
Pagina 37
... person who can read a musical score , knows , physically impossible . The musical scale does not admit even the first forty parts . * See the Gentleman's Magazine , 1796. p . 993 . to , the present reading . * The harmony is NATIONAL ...
... person who can read a musical score , knows , physically impossible . The musical scale does not admit even the first forty parts . * See the Gentleman's Magazine , 1796. p . 993 . to , the present reading . * The harmony is NATIONAL ...
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National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written. A Lyric ... Richard Grant White Vizualizare completă - 1861 |
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