| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 Seiten
...small field. The women reaped the corn, and the men bound up the sheaves. The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...all their voices were united. They accompany in the High. lands every action, which can.be done in equal time, with an appropriated strain ; which has,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 Seiten
...small field. The women reaped the corn and the men bound up the sheaves. The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...ancient proceleusmatick song, by which the rowers of galleys were animated, may be supposed to T 4 ' have have been of this kind. There is now an oar-song... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 Seiten
...small field. The women reaped the corn and the men bound up the sheaves. The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...time, with an appropriated strain, which has, they spy, not much meaning ; but its effects are regularity and cheerfulness. The ancient proceleusmatick... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 508 Seiten
...that he saw the Harvest of a small Field in one of the western Islands : — The Strokes of the Sickle were timed by the Modulation of the Harvest Song,...Highlands every Action which can be done in equal lime with an appropriate Strain, which has, they say, not much Meaning, but ils Eiil-cU are Regularity... | |
| John Brand - 1810 - 510 Seiten
...that hesaw-the Harvest of a small Field in one of the w. Mern Islands :— The Strokes of the Sickle were timed by the Modulation of the Harvest Song,...accompany in the Highlands every Action which can be dune in eqinl Time <••• iih an appropriate Strain, which has, they say, nut mucli Meaning, but... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 Seiten
...small field. The women reaped the corn, and the men bound up the sheaves. The strokes of the ekkle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...effects are regularity and cheerfulness. The ancient proceleusmatic song, by which the rowers of galleys were animated, may be supposed to have been of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 Seiten
...strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the hardest song, in which all their voices weiv united. They accompany in the Highlands every action,...effects are regularity and cheerfulness. The ancient proceleusmatic song, by which the rowers of galleys were animated, may be supposed to have been of... | |
| Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 Seiten
...alive only to gratify the malice of sending him to prey upon a neighbour : and the passage from Sky is wider than a fox would venture to swim, unless...harvest song, in which all their voices were united. Th ey accompany in the Highlands every action, which can be done in equal time, with an appropriated... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 Seiten
...small field. The women reaped the corn, and the men bound up the sheaves. The strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...ancient proceleusmatick song, by which the rowers of galleys were animated, may be supposed to have been of this kind. There is now an oar~song used by... | |
| James Ford - 1818 - 432 Seiten
...has noticed something of this nature which he observed in the Highlands. Ths strokes of the sickle were timed by the modulation of the harvest song,...which all their voices were united. They accompany every action which can be done in equal time with an appropriate strain, which has, they say, not much... | |
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