Varia: being essays on such historically curious matters as Princess Javasu, Queen Pepy's musicalityWard & Downey, 1894 - Всего страниц: 219 |
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Стр. 216 - Great, good, and just ! could I but rate My griefs, and thy too rigid fate ; I'd weep the world to such a strain, As it should deluge once again ; " But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies, More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes ; I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.
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Стр. 216 - Comes Mrs. Knipp to see my wife, and I spent all the night talking with this baggage, and teaching her my song of "Beauty, retire," which she sings and makes go most rarely, and a very fine song it seems to be. She also entertained me with repeating many of her own and others...
Стр. 156 - ... came into the presence of the Pontiff, he frowned on me very much, and with angry looks seemed to reprimand me : but, upon viewing my performance, his countenance grew serene, and he praised me highly, telling me that I had done a great deal in a short time : then looking attentively at me, he said, " Now that you have recovered your health, Benvenuto, take care of yourself.
Стр. 210 - Drumbleby's, the pipe-maker, there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low and soft ; and he do show me a way which do do, and also a fashion of having two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one, and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty.
Стр. 94 - Saw the superb funerall of the Protector. He was carried from Somerset House in a velvet bed of state drawn by six horses, houss'd with the same ; the pall held up by his new Lords ; Oliver lying in effigie in royal robes, and crown'd with a crown, sceptre, and globe...
Стр. 213 - But after three hours' stay it could not be fixed in tune ; and so they were fain to go to some other musique of instruments.
Стр. 58 - I went through geography so often with him that he knew all the maps very particularly. I explained to him the forms of government in every country, with the interests and trade of that country, and what was both good and bad in it. I acquainted him with all the great revolutions that had been in the world, and gave him a copious account of the Greek and Roman histories, and of Plutarch's Lives; the last thing I explained to him was the Gothic constitution, and the beneficiary and feudal laws.
Стр. 205 - Hewer, beat her there, and was angry ; and her mother saying that she was not a 'prentice girl, to ask leave every time she goes abroad, my wife with good reason was angry, and when she come home bid her be gone again. And so she went away, which troubled me...
Стр. 105 - And, like his coach-horses, threw his highness to ground. || Then Dick, being lame, rode holding by the pummel, Not having the wit to get hold of the rein ; But the jade did so snort at the sight of a Cromwell, That poor Dick and his kindred turned footmen again.^f * Constit.