 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 דפים
...children sitting on the banks, and playing on a rural instrument, perfectly answering the description of the ancient fistula, being composed of unequal reeds...with a simple but agreeable softness in the sound/' This extract is from a letter supposed to be written to Pope ; and as his translation of the " Iliad... | |
 | William Oliver Strunk - 1998 - 1584 דפים
...river and playing on a rural instrument, perfectly answering the description of the ancient fistula;3 being composed of unequal reeds with a simple but agreeable softness in the sound. Mr. Addison4 might here make the experiment he speaks of in his travels, there not being one instrument... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 דפים
...on the banks of the river, and playing on a rural instrument, perfectly answering the description of the ancient Fistula, being composed of unequal reeds,...a simple but agreeable softness in the sound. Mr. Addison52 might here make the experiment he speaks of in his travels; there not being one instrument... | |
 | 1913 - 604 דפים
...writing from that city in 1717, remarked that "there is not one instrument of music among the Greek and Roman statues that is not to be found in the hands of the people of this country"— a statement which we should like Dr. Southgate or some other authority to verify, if possible, before... | |
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... not without it. I have often seen them and their children sitting on the banks of the river, and playing on a rural instrument, perfectly answering the description uf the ancient fistula, being composed of unequal reeds, with a simple but agreeable... 
