 | James Townley - 1813 - 230 דפים
...the courtiers of Edward, that he first undertook his version of the Psalms, 191 K thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing " them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only " some few excepted." He was assisted by John Hopkins, an obscure clergyman and schoolmaster of Suffolk. The chief merit... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1824 - 488 דפים
...design to check these indecencies, undertook a metrical version of the Psalter, " thinking thereby, says Antony Wood, that the courtiers would sing them instead...their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted c." Here was the zeal, if not the success, of his fellow labourer Clement Marot. A singular coincidence... | |
 | 1826 - 534 דפים
...to be our Marot — without hie genius ; " thinking thereby," says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood, " that the courtiers would sing them...practised by the puritans in the reign of Elizabeth ; for Shakspeare notices the puritan of his day " singing Psalms to hornpipes *," and more particularly during... | |
 | William Nugent Glascock - 1826 - 318 דפים
...ingenious writer says, " Psalms were practised by the Puritans in the reign of Elizabeth ; for Shakspeare notices the Puritan of his day singing psalms to hornpipes, and more particularly during the Protectorate of Cromwell, on the same plan of accommodating them to popular tunes and jigs, which one... | |
 | Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard, Great Britain. Parliament, 1640-1660 - 1828 - 640 דפים
...English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them ; thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them, instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in those times,... | |
 | James Townley - 1828 - 398 דפים
...sung by the courtiers of Edward, that he first undertook his version of Psalms, " thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted." He was assisted by JOHN HOPKINS, clergyman and schoolmaster of Suffolk. The chief merit of this version... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 642 דפים
...English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them ; thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them, instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in those times,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 דפים
...these indecencies, undertook a metrical version of the Psalter — "thinking thereby," says Anthony Wood, "that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets ; but they did not, only some few excepting.'" Sternhold translated thirty-seven of the Psalms ; and they... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 456 דפים
...to be our Marot — without his genius ; ' thinking thereby,' says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood, ' that the courtiers would sing them...to horn-pipes,'* and more particularly during the protectorate of Cromwell, on the same plan of accommodating them to popular tunes and jigs, which one... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 462 דפים
...to be our Marot — without his genius ; ' thinking thereby,' says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood, ' that the courtiers would sing them...to horn-pipes,'* and more particularly during the protectorate of Cromwell, on the same plan of accommodating them to popular tunes and jigs, which one... | |
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thinking thereby,' says our cynical literary historian, Antony Wood, ' that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted. 
