The First Book of the Gramophone Record: Giving Advice Upon the Selection of Fifty Good Records from Byrd to Beethoven, a Listener's Description of Their Music, and a Glossary of Technical Terms |
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Page 11 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 10 - What is our life? A play of passion, Our mirth the music of division. Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be, " Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss. Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die...
Page 71 - Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade ; Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade ; Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Page 161 - O, who rides by night thro' the woodland so wild ? It is the fond father embracing his child ; And close the boy nestles within his loved arm, To hold himself fast, and to keep himself warm. " O father, see yonder ! see yonder ! " he says ; " My boy, upon what doest thou fearfully gaze ? " — " O, 'tis the Erl-King with his crown and his shroud." " No, my son, it is but a dark wreath of the cloud.
Page 161 - tis the Erl-King with his crown and his shroud." "No, my son, it is but a dark wreath of the cloud." THE ERL-KING SPEAKS "O come and go with me, thou loveliest child; By many a gay sport shall thy time be beguiled; My mother keeps for thee full many a fair toy, And many a fine flower shall she pluck for my boy.
Page 5 - Orator. 6. It is the onely way to know where Nature hath bestowed the benefit of a good voyce: which guift is so rare, as there is not one among a thousand, that hath it: and in many, that excellent guift is lost, because they want Art to expresse Nature.
Page 9 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 24 - Island, made Into an Opera by Mr. Shadwell^ having all New in it; as Scenes, Machines; particularly, one Scene Painted with Myriads of...
Page 3 - IN going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet to bring the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast.
Page 5 - Reasons briefly set down by th' auctor, to persuade every one to learne to sing. First it is a knowledge easely taught, and quickly learned where there is a good Master, and an apt Scoller.