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Article ON THE MUSIC OF THE ANCIENTS. ← Page 4 of 6 Article TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Page 1 of 1
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On The Music Of The Ancients.
'Tis said , and O believe the tale , Thy humbled reed could more prevail , Had more of strength , diviner rage . Than all which charms this laggard age ; Even all at once together found , JEolia's mingled world of sound . O bid our vain endeavours cease ,
Revive the just designs of 6 ' it KECK , Return , in all thy simple state , CONFIRM THE TALES HER SONS RELATE !
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Why drew Marseilles' good hi-Iiop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was djalh ? SIR , Dec IQ . " ^ IT PIEN I have been reading in Mr . Pope ' s Essay on Man the . ^* above linestill very latelythat I met with the following
, , letter , I was not well enough acquainted with the history of this pious prelate , to see the reason for the poet ' s choice of him , as a person of so signal a piety , as to have seemed to have been exempted from the malign influence of an air so putrid , that each gale thereof was death . As other readers of that essay may possiblbe desirous of seeing
y something relating to him , I send it to you , that , if you think fit , ' your Magazine may be a repository of an epistle which displays a character so worthy of imitation . 1 am , Sir , your constant reader , O . S . T .
THE BISHOP OF MAKSEILLES ' S LETTER TO THE BISHOT OF SOISSONS , SEPT . 27 , I / JtO , N . S . WHEN THE PLAGUE KAGEDAT MM' . SEILLES . ' I wish , my lord , I were as eloquent , as you are full of zeal and charity , to testify my grateful acknowledgment- of your liberality , and the charities you have procured us ; but , in our present consternation , we are not in a condition to express any other sentiment than that of grief . Your alms came at a very seasonable time : for I was
reduced almost to the last penny . I am labouring to get money for two bilis for icoo iivres , which the bishop of Frejus was pleased to send us , and six more of Mr . Fontanieu , though just upon the decay of the bills of 1000 Iivres , they are not very current ; yet 1 hope I shall succeed . ' You , my lord , have prevented these difficulties , and we are doubly obliged to you for it . Mi ght I presume to beg the
favour of you to thank , in my name , Cardinal de Rohan , M . and Madam de Dangeau , and the curate of St . Sulpice , for their charities ^ ' It is just I now give you some account of a desolate town you was pleased to succour . Never was desolation greater , nor ever was any like this . There have been many cruel plagues , but none was ever more cruel : to be sick and dead was almost the same thing . As soon as the : distemper gets into a house , it never leaves it tilfit lias
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On The Music Of The Ancients.
'Tis said , and O believe the tale , Thy humbled reed could more prevail , Had more of strength , diviner rage . Than all which charms this laggard age ; Even all at once together found , JEolia's mingled world of sound . O bid our vain endeavours cease ,
Revive the just designs of 6 ' it KECK , Return , in all thy simple state , CONFIRM THE TALES HER SONS RELATE !
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Why drew Marseilles' good hi-Iiop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was djalh ? SIR , Dec IQ . " ^ IT PIEN I have been reading in Mr . Pope ' s Essay on Man the . ^* above linestill very latelythat I met with the following
, , letter , I was not well enough acquainted with the history of this pious prelate , to see the reason for the poet ' s choice of him , as a person of so signal a piety , as to have seemed to have been exempted from the malign influence of an air so putrid , that each gale thereof was death . As other readers of that essay may possiblbe desirous of seeing
y something relating to him , I send it to you , that , if you think fit , ' your Magazine may be a repository of an epistle which displays a character so worthy of imitation . 1 am , Sir , your constant reader , O . S . T .
THE BISHOP OF MAKSEILLES ' S LETTER TO THE BISHOT OF SOISSONS , SEPT . 27 , I / JtO , N . S . WHEN THE PLAGUE KAGEDAT MM' . SEILLES . ' I wish , my lord , I were as eloquent , as you are full of zeal and charity , to testify my grateful acknowledgment- of your liberality , and the charities you have procured us ; but , in our present consternation , we are not in a condition to express any other sentiment than that of grief . Your alms came at a very seasonable time : for I was
reduced almost to the last penny . I am labouring to get money for two bilis for icoo iivres , which the bishop of Frejus was pleased to send us , and six more of Mr . Fontanieu , though just upon the decay of the bills of 1000 Iivres , they are not very current ; yet 1 hope I shall succeed . ' You , my lord , have prevented these difficulties , and we are doubly obliged to you for it . Mi ght I presume to beg the
favour of you to thank , in my name , Cardinal de Rohan , M . and Madam de Dangeau , and the curate of St . Sulpice , for their charities ^ ' It is just I now give you some account of a desolate town you was pleased to succour . Never was desolation greater , nor ever was any like this . There have been many cruel plagues , but none was ever more cruel : to be sick and dead was almost the same thing . As soon as the : distemper gets into a house , it never leaves it tilfit lias