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Page 199 - Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth : it is called Wye, at Monmouth ; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river ; but tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
Page 160 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult ;) for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Page 270 - Cslius calls it loco dolentia decantare) only indeed some small remains of this skill are preserved in the cure of the Tarantula. Did not Pythagoras stop a company of drunken bullies from storming a civil house, by changing the strain of the pipe to the sober spondaeus ? and yet your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers.
Page 272 - I have mixed unawares too much of the Phrygian ; I might change it to the Lydian, and soften their riotous tempers : But it is enough : learn from this Sample to speak with veneration of ancient Music. If this Lyre in my unskilful hands can perform such wonders, what must it not have done in those of a Timotheus or a Terpander...
Page 270 - Is it not from the loss of ancient music ? by which (says Aristotle), they taught all the virtues ? Else might we turn Newgate into a college- of Dorian musicians, who should teach moral virtues to the people.
Page 195 - Sir John Cutler had a pair of black worsted stockings, which his maid darned so often with silk, that they became at last a pair of silk stockings.
Page 271 - Lacedaemonian mob were up, they commonly sent for a Lesbian musician to appease them, and they immediately grew calm as soon as they heard Terpander sing : Yet I don't believe that the Pope's whole band of music, though the best of this age, could keep his holiness's image from being burnt on a fifth of November.
Page 270 - ... brother, you are brought to this dilemma, either to "' give up the virtue of the ladies, or the power of
Page 271 - The odd equipage, the uncouth instrument, the strangeness of the man, and of the music, drew the ears and eyes of the whole mob that were got about the two female champions, and at last of the combatants themselves. They all approached the balcony, in as close attention as Orpheus's first audience of cattle, or that of an Italian opera, when some favourite air is just awakened.
Page 272 - ... eyes of the whole mob that were got about the two female champions, and at last of the combatants themselves. They all approached the balcony, in as close attention as Orpheus's first audience of cattle, or that of an Italian opera, when some favourite air is just awakened. This sudden effect of his music encouraged him mightily, and it was observed he never touched his lyre in such a truly chromatic and enharmonic manner as upon that occasion.