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Updated: May 14, 2025
The Italian writers of the times describe the difficulties which they experienced in forming the rough and almost untuneable voices of their French and German pupils to the softness of the Gregorian song. They appear to have succeeded better with the Germans than the French.
'Nor good neither, answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
His linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hat-band. His stature was of a good size; his sword stuck close to his side; his countenance swoln and reddish; his voice sharp and untuneable, and his eloquence full of fervour."
"Nor good neither," answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
'Nor good neither, answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
For I may be allowed, I suppose, to say we have seen many great scholars mere learned men, and graduates in the last degree of study, whose English has been far from polite, full of stiffness and affectation, hard words, and long unusual coupling of syllables and sentences, which sound harsh and untuneable to the ear, and shock the reader both in expression and understanding.
In which is Oliver again, "very much hearkened unto," despite "linen plain and not very clean, and voice sharp and untuneable." Protestations; execution of Strafford, "the one supremely able man the king had"; a hope of compromise being for a time introduced by "royal varnish."
Whose narrow fire Is shaken by the wind, and on whose edge Devouring darkness hovers. With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
'Nor good neither, answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
Every reader will recall 'Who is Sylvia, from the Two Gentlemen, and 'It was a lover and his lass, the song of which, in Touchstone's opinion, 'though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the tune was very untuneable, or again the famous speech of the chidden king: One poem, bearing a certain resemblance to verses of Barnfield's already discussed, may be quoted here.
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