 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 páginas
...Dorian mode. (Keightley.) l. 551. recorder; — a kind of flute. 'The figures of recorders and flutes are straight, but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater, above and below.' (Bacon, Natural History 221.) l. .554. unmoved; — immoveable. Cf. L'Allegro 40. ' Though this variety... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 506 páginas
...outward appearance the same, although Lord Bacon in his A'ainral History, cent, iii, sec. 221, says the Recorder hath a less bore, and a greater above and below. The number of holes for the fingers is the same, and the scale, the compass, and the manner of playing,... | |
 | Robert Copland - 1871 - 356 páginas
...outward appearance the same, although Lord Bacon, in his Natural History, cent. iii. sec. 221, says the Recorder hath a less bore, and a greater above and below. The number of holes for the fingers is the same, and the scale, the compass, and the manner of playing,... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 páginas
...the flute, and it had a pleasing tone." Richardson (Diet.) quotes Bacon's Nat. Hist. : " The figure of recorders and flutes and pipes are straight, but...hath a less bore and a greater, above and below." See also Hamlet iii. 2, where "re-enter the Players with recorders," and Hamlet draws a humorous moral... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 72 páginas
...Doruk."-—M1LTON'S Areopagitica. Cf. PLUTARCH'S Lives—LYCURGUS, 22. 551 Recorders. A sort of flute. "The figures of recorders and flutes and pipes are straight; but the recorder hath a less bone and a greater, above and below."—BACON'S Natural History, quoted in JOHNSON'S Dictionary. "... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1875 - 508 páginas
...Natural History, Cent. III. Sect. 221, speaks of Recorders and Flutes at the same instant, and says that the Recorder hath a less bore and a greater, above and below; and elsewhere, Cent. II. Sect. 187, he speaks of it as having six holes, in which respect it answers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 506 páginas
...outward appearance the same, although Lord Bacon in his Natural History, cent, iii, sec. 221, says the Recorder hath a less bore, and a greater above and below. The number of holes for the fingers is the same, and the scale, the compass, and the manner of playing,... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 106 páginas
...instruments in their armies. 551. Recorder.- — A kind of flute. "The figures of recorders and flutes are straight, but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater above and below." — Bacon's Nat. Hist. 114. 560. II. iii. 8, 9. 562. Painful in its older sense of laborious. 563.... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 216 páginas
...whole army is consolidated into a corps. —551. Becorders. "The figures of recorders are straight ; the recorder hath a less bore and a greater, above and below." ISacnn. — 554. Breathed, inspired. " Music feedeth that disposition which it findeth." Bacnn. Why... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 218 páginas
...whole army is consolidated into a corps. — 551. Recorders. " The figures of recorders are straight; the recorder hath a less bore and a greater, above and below." Bacon. — 554. Breathed, inspired. "Music feedeth that disposition which it findeth." Ra.cnn. Why'trumpets... | |
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Generally the straight line hath the cleanest and roundest sound, and the crooked, the more hoarse and jarring. 222. OF a sinuous pipe that may have some four flexions, trial would be made. Likewise of a pipe made like a cross, open in the midst. 
