The Power of Music in Which is Shown By a Variety of Pleasing And Instructive
The Power of Music in Which is Shown By a Variety of Pleasing And Instructive
William Kent
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137 for Miss Wren, the daughter of Sir Christopher Wren, wherein the young lady is represented, on a bass relief, the work of Bird, in the character of St. Cecilia, playing on the organ, a boy angel sustaining her book, under which is the following inscription: " Here lies the body of Mrs. Jane Wren, only daughter of Sir Christopher Wren, Knight, by Dame Jane, his wife, daughter of William Lord Fitz- William, Baron of Li fiord, in the King- dom of Ireland. Ob. 29th Dec. 1702, aetat. 26. " From ...Sir John Hawkins. CLINIAS, THE PYTHAGOREAN. " THIS philosopher was a person very different, both in his life and manners, N 138 POWER OF MUSIC from other men. If it chanced at any time that he was inflamed with anger, he would take his harp, play upon, and sing to it; saying, as often as he was asked the cause of his so doing, c That by this means he found himself reduced to the temper of his former mildness. ' ' Treasury of Ancient and Modern Times. THE SPARTAN POET TYRTCEUS. TYRTCEUS, the Spartan poet, having first rehearsed his verses, and afterwards made them to be sung with flutes, well tuned together, he so stirred and in- flamed the courage of the soldiers thereby, that, whereas, they had before been overcome in divers conflicts, being then transported with the fury ef the Muses, they remained conquerors, and ON MAN AND ANIMALS.
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