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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their ... - Page 29
1807
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...adorn and grace the well ftudied chords of fome choice compofer ; fometimes the lute or foft organ flop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which, if wife men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over difpofitions and manners, to...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1823 - 434 pages
...descant in iloftyrifugues, or the whole symphony; with artful and imimiiginabU; touches, adorn ;m<' grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, j martial,. or civil ditties; which, if...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 17

Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 pages
...or the whole symphony with artfull and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well studied cords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute, or soft...either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...his_ "Tractate on Education," which, of itself is music : — " The interval of convenient rest after meat, may both with profit and delight,' be taken...some choice composer ; sometimes the lute, or soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voice*, ^either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 336 pages
...or learnt : either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty figures, or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable...some choice composer ; sometimes the lute, or soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...fugues, or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well studied chords of some choice composer ; sometimes the lute...either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

1827 - 684 pages
...fugues, or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well studied chords of some choice composer ; sometimes the lute...stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, civil, or martial ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out have a great power...
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The New-England Magazine, Volume 7

Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1834 - 542 pages
...grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute, or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well studied in8 L0 cither to religious, martial, or civil ditties ; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out,...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the ..., Volume 1

1836 - 432 pages
...grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which, if wise...
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