Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 92Pub. for J. Hinton., 1793 |
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... mind Disturb'd , delighted , rais'd , refin'd . MUSIC is as ancient as the world . It feems to have been born with man , to accompany him in his painful career , to fweeten his la- bours , and charm away his cares . This was its firft ...
... mind Disturb'd , delighted , rais'd , refin'd . MUSIC is as ancient as the world . It feems to have been born with man , to accompany him in his painful career , to fweeten his la- bours , and charm away his cares . This was its firft ...
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... mind carry him too far , in fubjecting mufic to the judgment of reafon alone , and ad- mitting no paufes or refts , but fuch as had an arithmetical or geometric proportion in them . Ariftoxenes , the difciple of Ariftotle , thought , on ...
... mind carry him too far , in fubjecting mufic to the judgment of reafon alone , and ad- mitting no paufes or refts , but fuch as had an arithmetical or geometric proportion in them . Ariftoxenes , the difciple of Ariftotle , thought , on ...
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... mind . When Anacreon flourished , it had already obtained forty ftrings . Ptolemy and Porphyry defcribe in ... minds of youth . True it is , the an- cients did not much practife compound mufic ; but that proceeded only from their not ...
... mind . When Anacreon flourished , it had already obtained forty ftrings . Ptolemy and Porphyry defcribe in ... minds of youth . True it is , the an- cients did not much practife compound mufic ; but that proceeded only from their not ...
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... mind , rectitude , franknefs , and honour , they fet us a - longing ; and I , who waited upon them , and listened to their con- verfation , could never hear them with- out feeling a defire to be fuch a man as I heard them praife . They ...
... mind , rectitude , franknefs , and honour , they fet us a - longing ; and I , who waited upon them , and listened to their con- verfation , could never hear them with- out feeling a defire to be fuch a man as I heard them praife . They ...
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... mind , that I inceffantly fancied heard and faw her . But when , on my arrival at Befons , I found this cottage abandoned ; and learned that my father , in the break- ing up of the ice the preceding win- ter , had perished in his ...
... mind , that I inceffantly fancied heard and faw her . But when , on my arrival at Befons , I found this cottage abandoned ; and learned that my father , in the break- ing up of the ice the preceding win- ter , had perished in his ...
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