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... SONGS . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON SONG - WRITING BY JOHN AIKIN , M.D. And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse . MILTON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO . , ST . PAUL'S ...
... SONGS . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON SONG - WRITING BY JOHN AIKIN , M.D. And ever , against eating cares , Lap me in soft Lydian airs , Married to immortal verse . MILTON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO . , ST . PAUL'S ...
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... Song Writing John Aikin. 11-7-51 MFP Elisabethar BOOKSELLE 11-5-51 76702 ADVERTISEMENT . THE Editor of this volume published , in 1772 , a work entitled " Essays on Song- writing , with a Collection of such English Songs as are most ...
... Song Writing John Aikin. 11-7-51 MFP Elisabethar BOOKSELLE 11-5-51 76702 ADVERTISEMENT . THE Editor of this volume published , in 1772 , a work entitled " Essays on Song- writing , with a Collection of such English Songs as are most ...
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Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. have chosen for the first time to appear as the collector of productions , the general strain of which is more suitable to an Earlier ...
Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. have chosen for the first time to appear as the collector of productions , the general strain of which is more suitable to an Earlier ...
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Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. AN ESSAY ON SONG - WRITING . THE HE poetical composition termed a Song is essentially characterized by the circum- stance of being ...
Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. AN ESSAY ON SONG - WRITING . THE HE poetical composition termed a Song is essentially characterized by the circum- stance of being ...
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Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. + cultivated Greek and Roman poetry , the epic , didactic , pastoral , elegiac , and va- rious other species of poetry were , as with us ...
Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Song Writing John Aikin. + cultivated Greek and Roman poetry , the epic , didactic , pastoral , elegiac , and va- rious other species of poetry were , as with us ...
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