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An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

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brethren; THOMAS and JOHN BETTES; LOCKEY, LYNE, PEAKE, PETER COLE, ARNOLDE, MARCUS, JACQUES DE BRAY, CORNELIUS, PETER GOLCHIS, HIERONIMO and PETER VAN DE VELDE. As LYSIPPUS, PRAXITELES, and PYRGOTELES were excellent engravers: so we have these engravers; ROGERS, CHRISTOPHER SWITSER, and CURE. _MUSIC_. The loadstone draweth iron unto it, but the stone of Ethiopia called _Theamedes_ driveth it away: so there is a kind of music that doth assuage and appease the affections, and a kind that doth kindle and provoke the passions. As there is no law that hath sovereignty over love; so there is no heart that hath rule over music, but music subdues it. As one day takes from us the credit of another: so one strain of music extincts [_extinguishes_] the pleasure of another. As the heart ruleth over all the members: so music overcometh the heart. As beauty is not beauty without virtue: so music is not music without art. As all things love their likes: so the more curious ear, the delicatest
Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World

ADRIFT IN NEW YORK Or, Tom and Florence Braving the World by HORATIO ALGER, JR. Author of "Mark Mason's Victory," "Ben Bruce," "Bernard Brook's Adventures," "A Debt of Honor," etc., etc. A. L. Burt Company, Publishers New York 1900
music. As too much speaking hurts, too much galling smarts; so too much music gluts and distempereth. As PLATO and ARISTOTLE are accounted Princes in philosophy and logic; HIPPOCRATES and GALEN, in physic; PTOLOMY in astromony; EUCLID in geometry; and CICERO in eloquence: so BOETIUS is esteemed a Prince and captain in music. As Priests were famous among the Egyptians; Magi among the Chaldeans, and Gymnosophists among the Indians; so Musicians flourished among the Grecians: and therefore EPAMINONDAS was accounted more unlearned than THEMISTOCLES, because he had no skill in music. As MERCURY, by his eloquence, reclaimed men from their barbarousness and cruelty: so ORPHEUS, by his music, subdued fierce beasts and wild birds. As DEMOSTHENES, ISOCRATES, and CICERO, excelled in oratory: so ORPHEUS, AMPHION, and LINUS surpassed in music. As Greece had these excellent musicians, ARION, DORCEUS, TIMOTHEUS Milesius, CHRYSOGONUS, TERPANDER, LESBIUS, SIMON Magnesius, PHILAMON, LINUS, STRATONICUS, ARISTONUS, CHIRON, ACHILLES, CLINIAS, EUMONIUS, DEMODOCHUS, and RUFFINUS: so England hath these, Master COOPER, Master FAIRFAX, Master TALLIS, Master TAVERNER, Master BLITHMAN, Master BYRD,