...especially for water. It was, in like manner, touched at by the earliest English and Dutch East India fleets towards the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, at which time the Portugueze flag was flying over the whole line of coast from Sofala to Mclinda, Mozambique,...

...especially for water. It was, in like manner, touched at by the earliest English and Dutch East India fleets towards the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, at which time the Portugueze flag was flying over the whole line of coast from Sofala to Melinda, Mozambique,...

...his genius. We must, moreover, leave almost untouched the lyric poets of Spain, who flourished toward the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, — Gongora and his followers, Quevedo, the ingenious author of the Visions, Villegas, 8cc. 8tc. &c....

...his genius. We must, moreover, leave almost untouched the lyric poets of Spain, who flourished toward the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, — Gongora and his followers, Quevedo, the ingenious author of the Visions, Villegas, &c. Sic. &c....

...been of the madrigal species, and were for three or more voices. Germany was devastated with wars at the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century : during the latter period, the dreadful thirty years' war took place, when the empire was traversed...

...verser to tell him that he played out of tune, whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Towards the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century, " shone that constellation of English musicians, whose inimitable madrigals are still the delight of...

...the persons in whom they were most conspicuous, and whose proceedings tended to agitate Holland at the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century. That zeal for creed and confession is frequently associated with some of the worst, because malignant,...

...the persons in whom they were most conspicuous, and whose proceedings tended to agitate Holland at the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century. That zeal for creed and confession is frequently associated with some of the worst, because malignant,...

...we may call him the Huss, if it be not better to call him the • Columbus of science. — That age, the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the time of the kindling of the lamps in the great Temple of Knowledge. How affectionately our...

...remarks on the improvement of psalmody for the close of the present treatise, we proceed with our sketch. Towards the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, rose that brilliant constellation of English musicians, whose madrigals and glees are still unrivalled...