The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Volume 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores ...
... soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores ...
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... soul , is , for that espe- cial reason , to be held in so much the higher estimation . No man felt the dignity of Music more than Handel ; since no man , pro- bably , ever felt to such a degree , the sublimity of its powers . He has ...
... soul , is , for that espe- cial reason , to be held in so much the higher estimation . No man felt the dignity of Music more than Handel ; since no man , pro- bably , ever felt to such a degree , the sublimity of its powers . He has ...
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... soul , which he possessed , and well knew how to communicate ; but which cannot be received where the mind is not prepared . But , where any congenial dispositions exist , I have no doubt in saying , that no eloquence of an Augus tine ...
... soul , which he possessed , and well knew how to communicate ; but which cannot be received where the mind is not prepared . But , where any congenial dispositions exist , I have no doubt in saying , that no eloquence of an Augus tine ...
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... Handel , it must be confessed , has attempted a kind of imitative ex- pression , by which he was now and then seduced ; the effect of which is not good . the sorrow of his own soul . The deep effect 18 On the Moral Effects of Music .
... Handel , it must be confessed , has attempted a kind of imitative ex- pression , by which he was now and then seduced ; the effect of which is not good . the sorrow of his own soul . The deep effect 18 On the Moral Effects of Music .
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... soul . The deep effect of the recitative accompanied , 66 thy rebuke hath broken his heart , " fol- lowed by the air , " Behold and see , if there be any sorrow like unto his sor- row , " is such as very seldom has or can be equalled ...
... soul . The deep effect of the recitative accompanied , 66 thy rebuke hath broken his heart , " fol- lowed by the air , " Behold and see , if there be any sorrow like unto his sor- row , " is such as very seldom has or can be equalled ...
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Página 83 - PAPPE with an hatchet, alias, a figge for my God Sonne, or Cracke me this nut, or a Countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning.
Página 205 - The last, the meanest of your sons inspire (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
Página 140 - A disclosing of the great bull, and certain calves that he hath gotten, and specially the monster bull that roared at my lord byshops gate.
Página 89 - Imbrown'd with native bronze, lo! HENLEY stands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Página 249 - A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Página 90 - Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!
Página 195 - Canvas and wood, and even stone, will decay. The work of a great artist loses all its spirit in the copy. Words are mutable and fleeting ; and the genius of poetry is often dissipated in translation. The compositions of music may remain, but the hand of execution may be wanting. Nature cannot decay ; the language of her interpreters will be the same in all times. It will be an universal tongue speaking to all countries, and all ages, the excellence of the work, and the wisdom of the Creator.
Página 348 - The fame that a man wins himself is best ; That he may call his own : honours put to him Make him no more a man than his clothes do, Which are as soon ta'en off; for in the warmth The heat comes from the body, not the weeds ; So man's true fame must strike from his own deeds.
Página 252 - ... my sin hath blurred ; enlighten my understanding with thy truth; rectify my judgment with thy word; direct my will with thy spirit; strengthen my memory to retain good things; order my affections, that I may love thee above all things ; increase my faith ; encourage my hope; quicken my charity; sweeten my thoughts with thy grace; season my words with thy spirit; sanctify my actions with thy wisdom; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions; reform...
Página 272 - Collection were so well known in almost all parts of Europe. ' Afterwards it is observed that 'The books in general are in very fine condition, many of them bound in morocco, and russia leather, with gilt leaves.