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Musick is heard without the SCENE, after it has play'd awhile and ceases, He speaks.
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John Banister seems to have been a somewhat “sturdy beggar,” though not exactly in the sense meant by the ordinance, for he established regular concerts at his house, “now called the Musick-school, over against the George Tavern in Whitefriars.”
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899
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That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not
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That Musick, which is composed by one of Judgment and Taste, instructs the Scholar, perfects the Skilful, and delights the
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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When Apollo disarms the barbarous Deity by the Charms of his Musick, which is so beautiful and artificial a Turn, that an ordinary Poet would have rested satisfied with the Discovery.
The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689
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I like it very well, said the Empress; but I observe that the Actors make a better show than the Spectators; and the Scenes a better than the Actors and the Musick and Dancing is more pleasant and acceptable than the Play it self; for I see, the Scenes stand for Wit, the Dancing for Humour, and the Musick is the Chorus.
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668
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Cambridge, lay clerk of Trinity, in his 'Musick's Monument,' pub.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning; "Musick," says
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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But rather than ban such amusements as “dancing, or Fencing, or Musick,” Adams wrote that Americans “should be ignorant of em all than fond of any one of em.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Musick, and musical instruments being very scarce in Carolina.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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