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 vii
... , and to say as many unpleasant things as their ingenuity could devise about the committee and its doings . As some , though viii by no means all , of the best songs THE Committee upon a National Hymn placed some ...
... , and to say as many unpleasant things as their ingenuity could devise about the committee and its doings . As some , though viii by no means all , of the best songs THE Committee upon a National Hymn placed some ...
Pagina ix
... thing more , as well as something other , than that which I sat down to write . If many of my readers find in the little book only what they had already learned , I shi be pleased that I address so well - informed a circle ; and let ...
... thing more , as well as something other , than that which I sat down to write . If many of my readers find in the little book only what they had already learned , I shi be pleased that I address so well - informed a circle ; and let ...
Pagina 35
... thing as a whole is of English fabrication . The music , in the present form of its melody and harmony , is in certain points superior , even to Haydn's noble air , written for the Aus- trian national hymn , which a true - born Briton ...
... thing as a whole is of English fabrication . The music , in the present form of its melody and harmony , is in certain points superior , even to Haydn's noble air , written for the Aus- trian national hymn , which a true - born Briton ...
Pagina 71
... thing for a poet to write about ; but an almost impos- sible thing to find . Apollo seems to have forbidden the bans of that much desired union . There , indeed , are some rare exceptions to this general rule . Of the lovely canzonet ...
... thing for a poet to write about ; but an almost impos- sible thing to find . Apollo seems to have forbidden the bans of that much desired union . There , indeed , are some rare exceptions to this general rule . Of the lovely canzonet ...
Pagina 75
... things proclaim , assert , and exult in the freedom of those who are to sing it . Let this be the expression ; let it be brimful of loyal to the flag , which is our only national symbol , and for that all the dearer let its allusions be ...
... things proclaim , assert , and exult in the freedom of those who are to sing it . Let this be the expression ; let it be brimful of loyal to the flag , which is our only national symbol , and for that all the dearer let its allusions be ...
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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...