 ... maids were ranged below the sofa to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty. She made them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately...  Annual Register - Page 286edited by - 1764Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, whilst the others danced by turns. I suppose you may have read that the Turks have no music but what... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, whilst the others danced by turns. I suppose you may have read that the Turks have no music but what... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, whilst the others danced by turns. I suppose you may have read that the Turks have no music but what... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, whilst the others danced by turns. I suppose you may have read that the Turks have no music but what... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments, between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied...with their voices, while the others danced by turns. When the dance was over, four fair slaves came into the room with the silver censers in their hands,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - English letters - 1906 - 572 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments, between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied...turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before. Nothing could be more artful, or more proper to raise certain ideas. The tunes so soft... | |
 | Ada M. Ingpen - English letters - 1909 - 506 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments, between a. lute and a guitar, which they accompanied...turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before. Nothing 3 could be more artful, or more proper to raise certain ideas. The tunes so soft... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood, Amy Ruth Kelly - Letter-writing - 1911 - 326 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments, between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied...turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before. Nothing could be more artful, or more proper to raise certain ideas. The tunes so soft!... | |
 | Mabel Duckitt - English letters - 1913 - 488 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied...turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before. Nothing could be more artful. . . . The tunes so soft !— the motions so languishing... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, whilst the others danced by turns. I suppose you may have read that the Turks have no music but what... | |
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