Such was the general state of music in England at the close of the sixteenth century ; as to our poetry, it had been ... stand by proportion, and by the doctors of our a#39; theology that God made the world by number, a#39; measure, and weight. ... He speaks of certain compositions after the manner of the acrostic, by W. Humus, and says that the earl of Surrey translated some part of Virgil into English hexameters.
Title | : | A General History of the Science and Practice of Music |
Author | : | Sir John Hawkins |
Publisher | : | - 1858 |
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