 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 436 pages
...he thought him the first English Composer, who attended to this point; for he there »ays that his Tuneful and well-measured song first taught our English Music how to span Words with just Note and Accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. And if Milton, who was certainly... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...that he thought him the first English Composer, who attended to this point; for he there tays that his Tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English Music how to span Words with just Note and Accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. And if Milton, who was certainly... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 1811 - 432 pages
...English Composer, who attended to this point; for he there says that his Tuneful and well -measured song First taught our English Music how to span Words with just Note and Accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. And if Milton, who was certainly... | |
 | Capel Lofft - 1813 - 274 pages
...MILTON. TO MR. H. LAWES. ON HIS AYRES. FEB. IX. MDCXLV. MS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our ENGLISH MUSIC how to span Words with just Note and Accent; not to scan With MIDAS ears, committing short and long;— Thy Worth and Skill exempts... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1819 - 342 pages
...which he addressed to Lawes, alludes to this circumstance in the lines, with which it begins; " Henry ! whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music, how to span Words, with j iist notes and accent, not to scan , With Midas' ears, committing short and long! * It is observable,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...TO MB. H. LAV.'KS, ON THE PUBLISHING HIS JJRS. Written 1645. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempts... | |
 | Charles Butler - Authors, English - 1824 - 368 pages
...which he addressed to Lawes, alluded to this circumstance in the lines, with which it begins : "Henry ! whose tuneful and well-measured song, First taught...music how to span Words, with just notes and accent, not to scan With Midas' cars, committing short and long!" It is observable, that, within these fifty... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...which he addressed to Lawes, alluded to this circumstance in the lines, with which it begins : "Henry! whose tuneful and well-measured song, First taught...music how to span Words, with just notes and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long!" It is observable, that, within these fifty... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1824 - 398 pages
...charming of all the arts had made in his own times. The music of Milton's modern Orpheus, " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent," &c. " The original plates, nearly worn out, were sold by the present family to the... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 604 pages
...charming of all the acts had' made in his own times. The musitf of Milton's modern Orpheus, " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song, First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent," &c. would, in the present day, be as little palatable to an English public, as the... | |
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HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy... 
