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" Patri, is now split into as many quavers as an Italian air. For this purpose, there is in every county an itinerant band of vocal musicians, who make it their business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and, after a prelude with the pitchpipe,... "
English Essays: Materials & Models for Composition from the Great Essayists - Page 32
edited by - 1908 - 106 pages
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The British Essayists: The Connoisseur

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 484 pages
...business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and, after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...measure, and anthems of their own composing. As these new. vs air and manner of the vulgar, he never fails to enrich hit conversation with their emphatic...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 32

British essayists - 1802 - 260 pages
...business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and, after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...measure, and anthems of their own composing. As these newVI fashioned psalmodists are necessarily made up of young men and maids, we may naturally suppose,...
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The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With ..., Volume 2

William Hayley - 1803 - 450 pages
...their business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...been brought into disgrace by too close an unison between the thorough-bass and the treble. It It is a difficult matter to decide which is looked upon...
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Select British Classics, Volume 30

1803 - 208 pages
...their business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...been brought into disgrace by too close an unison between the thorough-bass and the treble. It is a difficult matter to decide which is looked upon as...
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The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With ..., Volume 2

William Hayley - 1803 - 452 pages
...business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and after a % prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...naturally suppose that there is a perfect concord and smyphony between them : and, indeed, I have known it happen, that these sweet singers have more than...
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The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1803 - 442 pages
...made up of young men and maids, we may naturally suppose that there is a perfect concord and smyphony between them : and, indeed, I have known it happen,...been brought into disgrace by too close an unison between the thorough-bass and the treble. v . • It is a difficult matter to decide which is looked...
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The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...their business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester measure, and anthems of their own composing. ' .i As these new-fashioned psalmodists are necessarily made up of young men and maids, we may naturally...
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The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr, Volume 3

William Hayley - 1805 - 222 pages
...liberty to shoot in the manor, will bring him as much under the 'squire's command as his dogs and horsAs these new-fashioned psalmodists are necessarily made...have more than once been brought into disgrace by tor. close an unison between the thorough-bass and the treble. For this reason, the bell is often kept...
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The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr, Volume 3

William Hayley - 1805 - 220 pages
...and after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new \\irchester measure, and anthems of their own composing. As these...have known it happen, that these sweet singers have mere than once been brought into disgrace by toe close an unison between the thorough-bass and the...
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The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley ..., Volume 4

William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...their business to go round to all the churches in their turns, and after a prelude with the pitch-pipe, astonish the audience with hymns set to the new Winchester...have more than once been brought into disgrace by two close an unison between the thorough-bass and the treble. . , . It is a difficult matter to decide...
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