 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 páginas
...H. LA WES ON HIS AIRS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English m usic how to span Words with just note and accent, not to...ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng,. With praise enough for envy to look wan ; To after age thou shalt be... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 528 páginas
...loss of blood. VOL TO MR H. LA WES, ON THE PUBLISHING HIS AIHS. HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and aecent, not to sean With Midas' ears, committing short and long ; Thy worth and skill exempts theo... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 páginas
...1653. The first draft (MS.1) is as follows (I omit the revisions): Harry whose tunefull & well-measur'd song first taught our English Music how to span words with just notes wch till then us'd to scan with Midas eares, committing short & long Thy worth & skill exempts... | |
 | 1909 - 502 páginas
...but old Priest writ large. TO MR. H. LAWES ON HIS AIRS (1646) HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words...ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan ; To after age thou shall be... | |
 | William Lawes - 2002 - 242 páginas
...publication of Milton's famous sonnet extolling Henry Lawes as the composer Whose tunefull and well measur'd song First taught our English Music how to span Words with just note and accent.31 Acknowledgments I could not have undertaken this study and edition without assistance and... | |
 | Denis Stevens - 1961 - 500 páginas
...had inscribed to Henry Lawes the famous sonnet beginning :l Harry, whose tuneful and well measur'd song First taught our English music how to span Words...scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long. . . . Henry Lawes (1596-1662) had set the songs in Milton's Comus (and had performed the part of the... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 páginas
...tribute to his particular talents in a sonnet addressed to him : Harry whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words...ears, committing short and long; Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng . . . Some later settings of Milton Comus was made for a special occasion,... | |
 | Peter Le Huray - 1978 - 492 páginas
...that Milton's well-known tribute to Henry Lawes is to be found: Harry, whose tuneful and well measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent. . . . The volume contains well over sixty compositions, roughly thirty each by the two brothers, Henry... | |
 | Elise Bickford Jorgens - 321 páginas
...Dr. Jorgens's work, the real significance, for example, of Milton's praise of Henry Lawes as one who "First taught our English music how to span / Words with just note and accent" could not fully be grasped: Milton's own enjambment can "span" the words of the lines' beginnings and... | |
 | Alan Durant - 1984 - 270 páginas
...communal abstractions of metre, Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas Ears, committing short and long . . . . the man, That with smooth aire couldst humor best our tongue. Milton's praise for Lawes can... | |
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HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy... 
