| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - Страниц: 368
...and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable : anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| 1819 - Страниц: 654
...the fallen angels in hull— the unfurling of the standard of Satan — and the march of his troops " In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood " Of flutes and soft recorders " — all this human pomp and circumstance of war — is magic and overwhelming illusion. The imagination... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - Страниц: 484
...and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable ; anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders; such as rais'd To height of nohleat temper heroes old Arming to battle; and, instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 802
...recorder is a wind-instrument of a soft and melancholy sound. Milton makes the infernal spirits march on In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes, and soft recorders ; vaicb, says he, had the effect - to mitigate and swage With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 432
...contexture than this, which would much more perfectly answer our assigned purpose. Prompt, and, as it were, casual strains, which do not fix the attention...purposes. In vulgar hands, however, nothing is more apt to degenerate into those light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, which, as our great satiric Poet expresses... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 428
...answer our assigned purpose. Prompt, and, as it were, casual strains, which do not fix the attentipn of the hearer, provided they are the produce of an...purposes. In vulgar hands, however, nothing is more apt to degenerate into those light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, which, as our great satiric Poet expresses... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 438
...contexture than this, which would much more perfectly answer our assigned purpose. Prompt, and, as it were, casual strains, which do not fix the attention...executed with taste and tenderness, comes under the denommation of Simple Music, and may most fitly be adapted to ecclesiastical purposes. In vulgar hands,... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - Страниц: 430
...ceases ; an impulse strong enough to dispel from the mind alleating Care, (to use our great Poet~s own expression) but in no sort to rouse or ruffle...purposes. In vulgar hands, however, nothing is more apt to degenerate into those light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, which, as our great satiric Poet expresses... | |
| William Mitford - 1814 - Страниц: 444
...line, had considerably overstretched the Lacedaemonian left; and, Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move, In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised . To highth of noblest temper heroes old, ' ' Arming to battel, and, instead of rage,... | |
| John Gillies - 1814 - Страниц: 438
...Milton, who was a diligent reader of Tliucydirles, are the best commentary on this battle. Anon they move In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders, such asrais,d To height of noblest temper heroes old, Arming to battle ; and instead of rage, Deliberate... | |
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