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John Playford (1623-1686) - Gerards Mistresse, No. 55, Musicks Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-Way, 1652
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Performed by Phillip W. Serna Read more about this topic: John Playford Famous quotes containing the word biography:“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.” “As we approached the log house,... the projecting ends of the logs lapping over each other irregularly several feet at the corners gave it a very rich and picturesque look, far removed from the meanness of weather-boards. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments ... a style of architecture not described by Vitruvius, I suspect, though possibly hinted at in the biography of Orpheus.” “A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.” |