 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
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...MR. H. LAWES, ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. (Feb. 9, 1645-6.) HARRY, whose tuneful and well measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words...scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long; With praise enough for Envy to look wan; To after age thou shalt be writ the man, That with smooth... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...waste of wealth, and loss of blood. VIII. TO MR. H. LAWES ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempt thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan ; To after... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 pages
...see For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood. XIII. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...MR. H. LAWES, ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIRS. (Feb. 9, 1645-6.) HARRY, whose tuneful and well measur'd song First taught our English music how to span . . Words with just note and accent, not to scan r4*v££*~-, ~f> With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; [_ ,TThy worth and skill exempts thee... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 750 pages
...publication of the Poems, Milton wrote the following : — " TO MT FRIEND ME. HENRY LAWES. " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...publication of the Poems, Milton wrote the following : — " TO MY FRIEND MB. HENRY LAWES. " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...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 - 606 pages
...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 how to span Words...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... | |
 | 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
...cared to express in his own person, and yet which required some utterance. Henry Lawes — ' " Whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...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
...youth may not have written to be set to music by the composer apostrophised thus ?— " Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English...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... | |
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