 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...tvhich includes the wars of the French, Spaniards, and Germans, in Italy. The third period reaches from the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, during the war in the L.OW Countries. The fourth includes the thirty-years' war, and extends to the... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...Hawkins*, " I will tell the reader a secret, which is, that music was in its greatest perfection from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century; when, with a variety of treble instruments, a vicious taste was introduced, and vocal harmony received its... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...Hawkins,* " I will tell the reader a secret, which is, that music was in its greatest perfection from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century ; when, with a variety of treble instruments, a vitious taste was introduced, and vocal harmony received its... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - Albigenses - 1845 - 260 pages
...Persecution of the Waldenses in France — continued. 113 CONVERSATION VIII. History of the Waldenses from the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century. --..... 143 CONVERSATION IX. Conclusion of the history of the Waldenses in Calabria. 173 CONVERSATION... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1847 - 606 pages
...barber's shop, with which any one might amuse himself." Music in England was at its height from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr. Taylor, also, says, in his Inaugural Lectures at Gresham College, that " music was cultivated at... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Logic - 1849 - 184 pages
...this Index Scholastic, Schoolmen. In Italy, Cardan, Bruno, and Campanula, who flourished from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, opposed their own ways of thinking on the universe, the Deity, and the destinies of man, to the prevalent... | |
 | Andrew Jervise - Angus (Scotland) - 1861 - 558 pages
...battlements and turrets. Of a subsequent date to the castles just named, varying probably from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century, are the Lindsay castles of Edzcll and Finhaven, and Farnell, which was a residence of the Bishops of... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1880 - 716 pages
...barber's shop, with which any one might amuse himself." Music in England was at its height from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Dr. Taylor, also, says, in his Inaugural Lectures at Gresham College, that " music was cultivated at... | |
 | Kosmo Wilkinson - Constitutional history - 1905 - 364 pages
...Cherbury finds an Elizabethan precursor in Edward Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, who lived from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Like Herbert, this Lord Oxford united the graces, accomplishments, or affectations of the modern noble... | |
 | 1779 - 828 pages
...a£ted the part of the attendant Spirit. Mulic was at its greateft perfusion in Europe, from about the middle of the Sixteenth to the beginning of the Seventeenth century | when, with a variety of treble instruments, a vicious talte was introduced« and harmony received its mortal... | |
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I am upon this subject," says Sir John Hawkins*, " I will tell the reader a secret, which is, that music was in its greatest perfection from about the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth century; when, with a variety of treble... 