The Works of William Mason, Том 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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Стр. 355 - that his Tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English Music how to span Words with just Note and Accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. And if Milton, who was certainly a competent judge, is allowed to have
Стр. 298 - came, Inventress of the Vocal Frame; The sweet Enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
Стр. 310 - with profit and delight be taken up, in recreating and " composing their travailed spirits, with the solemn and " divine harmonies of Music heard or learnt; either " while the skilful Organist plies his grave and fancied
Стр. 200 - can teach us; how to obtain it, none; that nothing can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invita. dices faciesve Minerva. . Without invention a Painter is but a copier, and a Poet but a plagiary of others. Both are allowed sometimes to copy and translate; but, as our Author tells you, that is not the
Стр. 199 - can be given how to compass it. A happy genius is the gift of nature: it depends on the influence of the stars, say the astrologers. on the organs of the body, say the naturalists; it is the particular gift of Heaven, say the divines, both Christians and heathens. How to improve it, many books
Стр. 224 - and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis' Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die; Alas! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and Ia name. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
Стр. 175 - by Proclus, in the dialogue of Plato, called * Timaeus: If, says he, you take a man as he is made by ' Nature, and compare him with another who is the < effect of Art, the work of Nature will always appear * the less beautiful, because Art is more accurate than 1
Стр. 194 - rules, will make a farther inquiry into it, and endeavour to arrive at that which is hitherto unknown by that which is already known. But all, who having rejected the antient rules, and taken the opposite ways, yet boast themselves to be masters of this art, do but deceive others, and are themselves deceived
Стр. 210 - The Gothic manner, and the barbarous ornaments which are to be avoided in a picture," are just the same with those of an ill-ordered play. For example; our English tragi-comedy must be confessed to be wholly Gothic, notwithstanding the success which it has found upon our theatre; and in the
Стр. 175 - and of Sculpture, descends upon the marble and the cloth, and becomes the original of those arts; and being measured by the compass of the intellect, is itself the measure of the performing hand; and, being animated by the imagination, infuses life into the image. The idea of the Painter and the Sculptor is undoubtedly that