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" ... or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer ; sometimes the lute or soft organ stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties ; which, if... "
The Monthly magazine - Page 353
by Monthly literary register - 1840
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The Emerald, Volumes 1-2

1806 - 688 pages
...waiting on elegant Voices, either to religious, martial, >r civil ditties, which have power. »vcr dispositions, and, manners, to smooth and make them...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." Again — " He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon . , Were tents of various hue ; by some were...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 1

1807 - 458 pages
...soft organ stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." — Tractate tf Education, Prose Workif Amst. Edit. Vol. it. p. 849. Surely this sentence abounds as...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...grace the well studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute or softorgan stop waiting OH elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unex? pedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 2

1810 - 492 pages
...soft organ stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." Tractate of Education, prate warlet, .-limn. Edit. vol. it. p. 849. by every Briton, only to be found...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1823 - 434 pages
...choice composer; sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, j martial,. or civil ditties; which, if wise men and...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions." If there be any persons whose " dispositions and manners" it is peculiarly desirable " to smooth and...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well studied chords of some choice composer ; sometimes the lute or soft organ stop waiting on elegant voices,...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unexpedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 336 pages
...soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." VOL. III. H 688668 THOMAS MOORE. THIS Poet, whose lyrical effusions have so eminently distinguished...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 pages
...soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." VOL. III. H THOMAS MOORE. THIS Poet, whose lyrical effusions have so eminently distinguished him above...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

1827 - 684 pages
...sometimes the lute or soft organ stop waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, civil, or martial ditties, which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely...manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic hardness and distempered passions." This is but a counterpart of the exquisite lines ; " And ever against...
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Philological Museum

Julius Charles Hare - 1833 - 726 pages
...divine harmonies of musick heard or learnt, which if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have great power over dispositions and manners to smooth and make them gentle from rustick harshness and distempered passions?'" I own it appears to me that this can only be done by...
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