 The choral Ministers of this House do, according to an ancient custom, salute Flora every year on the first of May at four in the morning with vocal music of several parts. Which having been sometimes well performed hath given great content to the neighbourhood...  In the Days of Victoria: Some Memories of Men and Things - Стр. 83авторы: Thomas Forder Plowman - 1918 - Страниц: 367Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Richard Chandler, Charles Lambert - 1811 - Страниц: 476
...ministers of " this house do, according to antient cus" torn, salute Flora from the top of the tower " at four in the morning, with vocal music " of several parts ; which having been some" times well performed, hath given great " content to the neighbourhood and au" ditors underneath."... | |
 | Richard Chandler, Charles Lambert - 1811 - Страниц: 488
...ministers of " this house do, according to antient cus" torn, salute Flora from the top of the tower " at four in the morning, with vocal music " of several parts ; which having been some" times well performed, hath given great " content to the neighbourhood and au" ditors underneath."... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1860 - Страниц: 384
...choral ministers of this house do, according to antient custom, salute Flora from the top of the tower at four in the morning, with vocal music of several...content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath." Our readers will readily conclude that the " antient custom," which directed that the choristers of... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 200
...Deus, homlnum Salutis anctor optime, Immeiuum hoc mysterium Ovante lingua canimug. the top of the tower the choral ministers of this House do, according to...content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath." Another authority says that : " Previous to the Reformation a mass was performed every May-day morning,... | |
 | Henry Austin Wilson - 1899 - Страниц: 330
...have of it, not to have been originally a religious ceremony at all. Wood says concerning it : — " The choral Ministers of this House do, according to...content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath."* This suggests something of the nature of a secular concert; and it appears that in the middle of the... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1907 - Страниц: 508
...appear to have borne originally a secular character. "The choral ministers of this house," says Wood, " do, according to an ancient custom, salute Flora every...in the morning, with vocal music of several parts. The substitution of a hymn from the college grace for the " merry concert of both vocal and instrumental... | |
 | 1910 - Страниц: 356
...we have of it, not to have been originally a religious ceremony at all. Wood says concerning it : ' The choral Ministers of this House do, according to...content to the neighbourhood and auditors underneath.' This suggests something of the nature of a secular concert ; and it appears that in the middle of the... | |
 | 1900 - Страниц: 1040
...celebration. The earliest-known account of the ceremony is that of Wood, who says concerning it : ' The choral Ministers of this House do, according to...in the morning, with vocal music of several parts. (From a Photograph by Messrs. Hills and Saundcrs, Oxford.) Which having been sometimes well performed... | |
 | 1897 - Страниц: 1044
...Henry the Seventh, which did not at any rate exist then. He says ' the Choral Ministers of this Home do, according to an ancient custom, salute Flora every...content to the neighbourhood and Auditors underneath.' Later, when good madrigal singing fell into disuse, those of the choir who still thought fit to continue... | |
 | 1897 - Страниц: 1074
...Henry the Seventh, which did not at any rate exist then. He says ' the Choral Ministers of this Home do, according to an ancient custom, salute Flora every...content to the neighbourhood and Auditors underneath.' Later, when good madrigal singing fell into disuse, those of the choir who still thought fit to continue... | |
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