The History of the Violin, and Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from the Remotest Times to the PresentJ. R. Smith, 1864 - 390 pages |
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Page 132 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls ; The seals and maces danc'd before him. His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat and satin doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's Queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
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Page 135 - Organ, virginal or harpsicon joyn'd with them; and they esteemed a violin to be an instrument only belonging to a common -fiddler, and could not endure that it should come among them, for feare of making their meetings to be vaine and fiddling.
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