National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written. A Lyric and National Study for the TimesRudd & Carleton, 1861 - 152 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... spirit which is given by its quick ascent through such an extended range of notes . The words , too , are altogether unfitted for a national hymn . They are almost entirely descriptive , and of a particular event . Such lines as these ...
... spirit which is given by its quick ascent through such an extended range of notes . The words , too , are altogether unfitted for a national hymn . They are almost entirely descriptive , and of a particular event . Such lines as these ...
Pagina 55
... spirit and origin , these celebrated songs have one historical point in common , * See the extracts from Southern newspapers and letters in the " Rebellion Record . " which is interesting in itself , and full of significance NATIONAL ...
... spirit and origin , these celebrated songs have one historical point in common , * See the extracts from Southern newspapers and letters in the " Rebellion Record . " which is interesting in itself , and full of significance NATIONAL ...
Pagina 64
... spirit in like stirring accents , and of general application , might reasonably be hoped . And so the committee cast out its net , and waited patiently for the dawning . Not only , however , was all not to be fish that came to that net ...
... spirit in like stirring accents , and of general application , might reasonably be hoped . And so the committee cast out its net , and waited patiently for the dawning . Not only , however , was all not to be fish that came to that net ...
Pagina 71
... spirit and its style ? Must it needs have great lyric excellence ? Should it be enriched by imagination and fancy ? What should be its motive ? For what should it express love and admiration ? to what , devotion ? What should be the ...
... spirit and its style ? Must it needs have great lyric excellence ? Should it be enriched by imagination and fancy ? What should be its motive ? For what should it express love and admiration ? to what , devotion ? What should be the ...
Pagina 75
... spirit be that of our nation- ality ; let it have a strong , steady , rhythmical flow ; and these points secured as to the words , the air is the most important matter . If that be such a one as all who sing can sing , and as the ...
... spirit be that of our nation- ality ; let it have a strong , steady , rhythmical flow ; and these points secured as to the words , the air is the most important matter . If that be such a one as all who sing can sing , and as the ...
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National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written. A Lyric ... Richard Grant White Vizualizare completă - 1861 |
National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written : a Lyric ... Richard Grant White Vizualizare completă - 1862 |
National Hymns: How They are Written and how They are Not Written. A Lyric ... Richard Grant White Vizualizare completă - 1861 |
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abreuve nos sillons Amen American anthem battle battle of Hastings bless called Carey chorus citoyens competitors composition dear E Pluribus Unum earth enemies England English evermore excited favor feeling Flag of freemen formez vos bataillons Fort Sumter Gentleman's Magazine George glorious dreams God save HAMILTON FISH hand Hark harmony heart Henry Carey hills and streams home of Freedom honor Hozanna Jacobite John Bull liberty LIGHT lines live loyal lyric manuscripts Marchons Marseillaise national airs noble O'er origin peace poets popular prize qu'un sang impur race reason reign rhyme RICHARD GRANT WHITE Rule Britannia sang impur abreuve save our Fatherland Save the King save the land Scotch sent sentiment sing songs received soul spirit stanza Star-Spangled Banner stars strong style sung thee thou throne tion Tis Freedom's Jubilee,-hurrah truth verses victorious voice wave words and music writers written
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Pagina 18 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Pagina 42 - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Pagina 40 - God save great George our king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!
Pagina 43 - O Lord our God, arise! Scatter his enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks: On Thee our hopes we fix — God save us all!
Pagina 76 - Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.
Pagina 45 - God Bliss the PRINCE OF WALES The True-born Prince of Wales Sent us by THEE Grant us one favour more The King for to restore As Thou hast done before THE FAMILIB.
Pagina 42 - May she defend our laws, and ever give us cause to sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen.
Pagina 33 - A nation properly signifies a great number of families derived from the same blood, born in the same country, and living under the same government.
Pagina 47 - ... sword in hand with such impetuosity, that in less than ten minutes after the battle began, the king's troops were broken and totally routed. The dragoons fled in the utmost confusion at the first onset ; the general officers, having made some unsuccessful efforts to rally them, thought proper to consult their own safety by an expeditious retreat towards Coldstream on the Tweed.
Pagina 47 - At length, perceiving they had occupied the rising ground to the southward of Falkirk, he ordered his cavalry to advance, and drive them from the eminence; while his infantry formed, and were drawn up in order of battle. The highlanders kept up their fire, and took aim so well, that the assailants were broke by the first volley : they retreated with precipitation, and fell in amongst the infantry, which were likewise discomposed by the wind and rain beating with great violence in their faces, wetting...