Concerts of Antient Music

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W. Lee, 1791
"A sketch of the rise and progress of Her Majesty's Concerts of ancient music, by John Parry": vol. for 1847, p. [iii]-xii.
 

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Page 38 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 64 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Page 19 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
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