 | Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 524 pages
...Newton in mathematics and philosophy. Unluckily for Purcell, he built his fame with such perishable materials, that the knowledge of his worth and works...Purcell, were both musicians, and gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, at the Restoration. From whom Henry received his first instructions in music cannot be ascertained.... | |
 | Charles Cudworth - 1983 - 298 pages
...perishable materials, that his worth and works are daily diminishing', his celebrity 'so much . . . already consigned to tradition, that it will soon...them, as those of his predecessors Orpheus and Amphion . . .'48 At points his account threatens to become hedged with Hawkinsian prevarications; just as according... | |
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... of their productions. And so much of our great musician's celebrity is already consigned to tradition, that it will soon be as difficult to find his songs, or at least to hear them, as those of his predecessors Orpheus and Amphion, with which Cerberus... 