This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...foolish la/jor.--Doric, pertaining to Dorian?, a people of ancient Greece. In music, Doric means severe, austere, grave; the Lijdian was oft, sweet, pathetic; Phrygian, sprightlv, animated; Ionic, airy, fanciful.--Madrigal, n hrief pastoral pnem, usually a lovesong.--Rebec (Fr. rebec, from'the Arabic), a stringed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...foolish la/jor.--Doric, pertaining to Dorian?, a people of ancient Greece. In music, Doric means severe, austere, grave; the Lijdian was oft, sweet, pathetic; Phrygian, sprightlv, animated; Ionic, airy, fanciful.--Madrigal, n hrief pastoral pnem, usually a lovesong.--Rebec (Fr. rebec, from'the Arabic), a stringed instrument like a violin or guitar. (It was the original of our violin, and probably a Moorish invention.) Ballatry (balladry. This word Ib now obsolete), a sonrj, a jig.--Arcadias. The Arcadia of Sir Philip Sidney is a pastoral romance, published in 1590; "the only original production of the kind worthy of nolice." says Haltam, 'which our older literature can boast.'--Monte Mayor is a town in Spain. Here it is the title of a book.--Hears ill, i" blamed. Hear was used in the sense of to he. called, to hear one'sself called. With ill it meant to be in bad repute. Thus Holland, says of iabius, "He heard Ul for his temporizing and slow proceedings." The Latin audio was used in the same way; also the Greek anotfu. So, " Hear'sl tbon rather pure, ethereal stream?" i. tf., "Dost thou rather hear thyself called pure ethereal stream?" Paradise Ixtst. in., Inhibit, check.--Sequester, retire--Atlantic, pcitalning to the New Atlantie, an imaginary paradise of utilitarian philosophers, described by Lord Bacon in his untiuished work entitled y?io Atlantis. The old Atlantis was described by Plato as a vast and beautiful island which was sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean nine thousand years before his day!--Utopia is an imaginary island described by Sir Thomas More in his celebrated work bearing that title. lie represents society and government there as absolutely perfect. Aptness. Distinguish among the synonymes, aptnes...
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