The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... masters who sailed to Britain , and drank metheglin with the druids , he could tell us more about the state of our island 3000 years ago than all the antiquaries that ever wrote . But though commerce and navigation were very ancient ...
... masters who sailed to Britain , and drank metheglin with the druids , he could tell us more about the state of our island 3000 years ago than all the antiquaries that ever wrote . But though commerce and navigation were very ancient ...
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... masters of the art , and followed by the whole world of music . The productions of our native composers are entirely neglected , our national music is utterly despised , and we constantly suffer the vexation of hearing ladies ( for ...
... masters of the art , and followed by the whole world of music . The productions of our native composers are entirely neglected , our national music is utterly despised , and we constantly suffer the vexation of hearing ladies ( for ...
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... masters of the art seem to be afraid of simplicity , and to consider it as something synominous with imbecillity . They should be aware that , in all the fine arts , simplicity is a point to which an approach is gradually made in the ...
... masters of the art seem to be afraid of simplicity , and to consider it as something synominous with imbecillity . They should be aware that , in all the fine arts , simplicity is a point to which an approach is gradually made in the ...
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... master in his means of producing dramatic effect , the open and natural style of his melody , and the richness of his accompaniments . In those days , the works of the foreign masters were familiar only to the frequenters of the Italian ...
... master in his means of producing dramatic effect , the open and natural style of his melody , and the richness of his accompaniments . In those days , the works of the foreign masters were familiar only to the frequenters of the Italian ...
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... master - pieces on the English stage . Even under the great disad- vantage which we have just noticed , they are admirable models of drama- tic composition , and would have been of great benefit to our native school had it not been for ...
... master - pieces on the English stage . Even under the great disad- vantage which we have just noticed , they are admirable models of drama- tic composition , and would have been of great benefit to our native school had it not been for ...
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Page 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Page 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.