The Story of British Music: (from the Earliest Times to the Tudor Period) ...C. Scribner's sons, 1896 - 396 pages |
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The Story of British Music From the Earliest Times to the Tudor Period Frederick James 1850-1927 Crowest No preview available - 2021 |
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Page 262 - Percy called for song and harp, And pipes of martial sound. The minstrels of thy noble house, All clad in robes of blue, With silver crescents on their arms, Attend in order due.
Page 214 - Along the lofty window'd hall, The storied tapestry was hung : With minstrelsy the rafters rung Of harps, that with reflected light From the proud gallery glitter'd bright...
Page 16 - I' th' head of all this warlike rabble, Crowdero ' march'd, expert and able. Instead of trumpet and of drum, That makes the warrior's stomach come, Whose noise whets valour sharp, like beer By thunder turn'd to...
Page 208 - On stubborn foes he vengeance wreak'd, And laid about him like a Tartar, But if for mercy once they squeak'd, He was the first to grant them quarter.
Page 371 - Jairus house, [Whose daughter was about to dye,] He turn'd the minstrels out of doors, Among the rascal company : Beggars they are with one consent, And rogues, by Act of Parliament.
Page 188 - The stupid crowd, delighted with all these vagaries, imagine they hear a concert of Sirens, in which the performers strive to imitate the notes of nightingales and parrots, not those of men; sometimes descending to the bottom of the scale, sometimes mounting to the summit; now...
Page 261 - In the first rank did ride forty-eight in the likeness and habit of esquires, two and two together, clothed in red coats and gowns of say or...
Page 255 - Minstrels only, but now-a-days they are assisted by the promiscuous multitude, that flock hither in great numbers, and are much pleased with it, though sometimes, through the emulation in point of manhood, that has been long cherished between the Staffordshire and Derbyshire men, perhaps as much mischief may have been done in the trial between them, as in the Jeu de Taureau, or bull-fighting, practised at Valentia, Madrid, and many other places in Spain...
Page 254 - Minstrels can take him, and hold him so long, as to cut off but some small matter of his hair, and bring the same to the Mercat cross, in token they have taken him, the said Bull is then brought to the...
Page 261 - On the Sunday before Candlemas, in the night, one hundred and thirty citizens, disguised, and well horsed, in a mummery, with sound of trumpets, sackbuts, cornets, shalmes, and other minstrels, and innumerable...