An Introduction to the Study of National Music: Comprising Researches Into Popular Songs, Traditions, and Customs

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866 - Počet stran: 435
 

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Strana 209 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Strana 235 - I might likewise refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on this subject, as he has expressed them in the character of the Misanthrope ; but those only who are endowed with a true greatness of soul and 'genius, can divest themselves of the little images of ridicule, and admire nature in her simplicity and nakedness.
Strana 23 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Strana 412 - An Historical Enquiry respecting the Performance on the Harp in the Highlands of Scotland, from the earliest times until it was discontinued about the year 1734; to which is prefixed an account of a very ancient Caledonian harp, and of the harp of Queen Mary.
Strana 268 - God's creatures, and of the daughters of paradise; but even the trees themselves will celebrate the divine praises with a harmony exceeding whatever mortals have heard , to which will be joined the sound of the bells hanging on the trees, which will be put in motion by the wind proceeding from the throne of God, so often as the blessed wish for music...
Strana 358 - Quhy dois zour brand sae drop wi' bluid ? And quhy sae sad gang zee, O ? O, I hae killed my...
Strana 419 - The Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature ; and other Admirable Rarities ; forming the second volume of the Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids : drawn from authentic documents of remote antiquity ; (with great pains now rescued from oblivion) and never before published.
Strana 285 - The snake was obedient, and the musician continued : " Snake, you must dance, for a white man has come to Falaba; dance, snake, for this is indeed a happy day." The snake twisted itself about, raised its head, curled, leaped, and performed various feats, of which I should not have supposed a snake capable; at the conclusion, the musician walked out of the yard, followed by the reptile, leaving me in no small degree astonished, and the rest of the company not a little pleased, that a black man had...
Strana 223 - We will plait thick wreaths of jidle for our heads, and prepare strings of hooni for our necks, that their whiteness may show off the colour of our skins. Mark how the uncultivated spectators are profuse of their applause ! But now the dance is over. Let us remain here to-night, and feast and be cheerful ; and to-morrow we will depart for the Mooa.

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