Hark, how the banging marrow-bones, Make clanging cleavers ring; With a ding dong, ding dong, Ding dong, ding dong, Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding. Raife your uplifted arms on high; In long-prolonged tones Let cleavers found A merry merry round' By banging marrow-bones. RECIT. Accompanied. Ceafe, lighter numbers: Hither bring Stretch'd out, and to the tumid bladder Then deeper fwell the notes and fadder, With dead, dull, doleful, heavy hums, And grievous groans, PART II. RECIT. Accompanied. WITH magic founds, like thefe, did Orpheus' lyre When, as he play'd, the lift'ning flood Each ruddy-breafted robin All, all confpir'd to raise th' enliv'ning found. RECITATIVE. Now to Cæcilia, heav'nly maid, Your loud united voices raife, With folemn hymns to celebrate her praise, • This inftrument, by the learned, is fometimes called a hum ftrum. R 3 The The falt-box with clattering and clapping fhall found, Buzzing twang with wav'ring wire, The fober hurdy-gurdy thrum, BOOKS published in the Year 1763. The antiquities of Athens measured and delineated, by James Stuart, F. R. S. and F. S. A. and Nicholas Revett, Architects and Painters. V. i. TH HERE is fcarcely any object, which operates more powerfully on that curiofity, which is the great incitement to knowledge, than antiquities of every fpecies. If fome perfons have followed this tudy with too much minutenefs, or, by an enthufiafm naturally, and fomewhat excufeably, growing out of a favourite purfuit, have rated antiquities above their juft value, their weakness cannot attaint the good fenfe of others, nor derogate from the advantage of rational and liberal enquiries. By the ftudy of antiquities, history is frequently explained and confirmed, and fometimes corrected. Facts and manners are rendered more diftinct, and their impreffion becomes infinitely stronger, and more lafting. This ftudy becomes ftill more important, if the antiquities, which are the object of it, relate to a nation not only diftinguished for its power and policy, but eminent for its cultivation of the rational powers, and its refinement on the In pleafures of the imagination. fuch a cafe, monuments of antiquity not only illuftrate hiftory, but regulate tafte; and are capable of affording the most effential helps in the improvement of architecture, painting, fculpture, and all the arts which embellish life. Advantages of this kind were naturally expected from a work on the antiquities of Athens; and, perhaps, no book, which had excited fo much of the public expectation, has difappointed it fo little. Monfieur le Roy's performance, though it preceded this work, did not at all pre-occupy its place. The work of meffieurs Stuart and Revett is, in every refpect, as original and informing, as if no other on the fubject had gone before it. Indeed, that which has preceded it rather afforded new and powerful reafons for the publication of this. The numerous and important mistakes, with which that book is filled, both in the difquifitions and defigns, had rendered more exact enquiries, and more accurate drawings, abfolutely neceffary. Becaufe the name of Athens would have been impofing; and its monuments, thus reprefented, would have vitiated, instead of correct Tranflation of the Motto. Yield, yield ye fidlers, French, Italians, PART I.. RECITATIVE Accompanied, BAnd mufic, that the aftonith'd car with difcord wounds: No more let common rhymes prophane the day. Grac'd with divine Cæcilia's name; The meaner melody we fcorn, Which vulgar inftruments afford; In ftrains more exalted the falt-box shall join, Strike, ftrike the foft Judaic harp, By teeth coercive in firm durance kept, AIR. Buzzing twangs the iron lyre,. Shrilly thrilling, Trembling, trilling. Whizzing with the wav'ring wire. A GRAND SYMPHONY, Accompanied with marrow-bones and cleavers.. Hark, how the banging marrow-bones Make clanging cleavers ring, With a ding dong, ding dong,. Ding dong, ding dong, Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding, Raife your uplifted arms on high; In long-prolonged tones Let cleavers found A merry merry round By banging marrow-bones. D FULL Hark, how the banging marrow-bones, Make clanging cleavers ring; Ding dong, ding dong, T Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding, In long-prolonged tones A merry merry round" By banging marrow-bones. RECIT. Accompanied. Ceafe, lighter numbers: Hither bring Stretch'd out, and to the tumid bladder Then deeper fwell the notes and fadder, With dead, dull, doleful, heavy hums, And grievous groans, * The fober hurdy-gurdy thrums. PART II. RECIT. Accompanied. WITH magic founds, like these, did Orpheus' lyre When, as he play'd, the lift'ning flood AIR. Each ruddy-breafted robin The concert bore a bob in, The grunting hogs, All, all confpir'd to raise th' enliv'ning found. Now to Cæcilia, heav'nly maid, Your loud united voices raife, With folemn hymns to celebrate her praise, Each inftrument shall lend its aid. This inftrument, by the learned, is fometimes called a hum ftrum. |