 HARRY, whose 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, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy...  The Works of William Mason - Page 355by William Mason - 1811Full view - About this book
 | George Sandys - Bible - 1872 - 332 pages
...musk-rose of the dale." To him, too, Milton addressed the sonnet " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent." This sonnet first appeared in the publication of " Choice Psalms put into Music by Henry and William... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...wealth, and loss of blood.2 XIII. TO MB. H. LAWES" ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tnnefnl and well measured song First taught our English music...with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears,4 committing short and long ; 5 Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng. With praise... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...wrote the following : — " TO MY FRIEND MB. HENRY LAWES. " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Hidas ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English musick how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas ears, committing short and long; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, & With praise enough for Envy to look wan: To after... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1874 - 432 pages
...person, and yet which required some utterance. Henry Lawes — ' " Whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words...With Midas' ears, committing short and long ;" and whom he had claimed as the Casella of another Dante, had already been associated with him. " Lawrence,... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - Great Britain - 1874 - 494 pages
...to be set to music by the composer apostrophised thus ?— " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words...to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for envy to look wan; To after-age... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...of blood. XIII. TO MR H. LAWES,3 ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song; First taught our English music how to span Words...just note and accent, not to scan With Midas ears, committing4 short and long; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 900 pages
...literary friendships of our author was his intercourse with HENRY LAWES, " Whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words, with just note and accent." Their acquaintance may have begun at Salisbury Cathedral, where the musician's father, Thomas, was... | |
 | John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 538 pages
...great excellencies in the composition of music to words : — Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words...to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempt theo from the throng, With praise enough for envy to look wan ; To after-age... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...might create a soul Under the ribs of death. MILTON: Comus. Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words...scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. MlLTON : To Mr. H. Lawes. Such music as, 'tis said, Before was never made, But when of old the sons... | |
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