| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...an ostentation of difficulty and puerile contrivance. " Ces sont des notes et rien que des notes ; there is nothing in them which excites rapture. They...clapper of a mill or the rumbling of a postchaise." We are aware that the period of which we have spoken has been mentioned as the time when music was... | |
| 1814 - 580 pages
...and an ostentation of difficulty and puerile contrivance. " Ces sont des notes et rien que des notes; there is nothing in them which excites rapture. They...clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a postchaise." We are aware that the period of which we have spoken hag been mentioned as the time when music was... | |
| Allatson Burgh - Music - 1814 - 526 pages
..." Ce sont des notes, " et rien que des notes," there is nothing in them which excites rapture ; and they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little...emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of an hackney coach. After such frequent mention of the extreme difficulty of these old pieces, in mercy... | |
| 1814 - 550 pages
...notes; there is nothing in them which excites rapture. They may be heard by a lover of music vvilh as little emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a postchaise." We are aware that the period of which we have spoken bas been mentioned as the time when music was... | |
| James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 580 pages
...the Manuscripts of the King's Library," &c. In the preface are some curious and useful observations. JOHN BULL, Mus. Doct. Cantab. Instaur. Oxon. MDXCII....one, of the most celebrated English musicians of his tune, was born at Cambridge 1583. At the age of twentyone he was appointed organist of the chapel royal,... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...taste was^bad, than that Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little...clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise." It is a misfortune to Dr. Bull's fame, that he left little evidence of his great powers, except the... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 390 pages
...taste was bad, than that Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may • be heard by a lover of music, with as...emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-cliaise." It is a misfortune to Dr. Bull's fame, that he left little evidence of his great powers,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1827 - 892 pages
...taste was bad, than that Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little...emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-cliaise." It is a misfortune to Dr. Bull's fame, that he left little evidence of his great powers,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...taste was bad, than that Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little...clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise." It is a misfortune to Dr. Bull's fame, that he left little evidence of his great powers, except the... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...taste was bad, than that Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little...clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise." It is a misfortune to Dr. Bull's fame, that he left little evidence of his great powers, except the... | |
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