Thus likewise John Davies in his Pleasant Descant upon English Proverbs, printed with his Scourge of Folly, about 1612: Do well and have well!
Still be Anacreon, still inspire The descant of the Teian lyre: Still let the nectared numbers float Distilling love in every note!
You descant too much upon words, sir; we have left off, now, using them with such prodigious precision.
Though aware of the declared hostility among the clergy, he had not then deemed it proper to descant on that subject, but had, in courtesy, dedicated the Second Edition to the Assembly in conjunction with the Parliament.
A poetical descant on the primeval and present state of mankind; or, The pilgrim's muse.
Helen, however, naturally siding with her father, did not hesitate to bring it up repeatedly, and youthfully to descantat length and with some elaboration of ideas on the propriety and admirableness of her father's act.
But the teacher does not go beyond this, and descantupon the opposite conditions, and promise joys ineffable and full of glory.
It is, however, a subject upon which one cannotdescant before the general public.
Is it necessary for me to descant upon the topics of difference which then separated the two great parties in the Government?
Let us not have a descant on the cruelty of imprisonment for debt, and the expediency of introducing other provisions on that subject.
Occasionally he would bring the model in the office, and while whittling on it would descant on its merits and the revolution it was destined to work in steamboat navigation.
In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire.
After all this, might wedescant upon the squire's characteristics.
Now come we lawfully to descant upon matters more mental and sentimental--the metaphysique of the subject--the pleasures and pains of Home.
It is scarcely worth while here to descantupon the work of Phidias or Sophocles, and to analyse its excellence.
This is not the same idle performance as to descant rapturously upon his purely inborn genius.
He had now a new subject of grief to descant upon.
When once the subject had been introduced, Helena was prone to descant upon her own situation, and listened with deference to the remarks and admonitions of her companion.
He proceeded to descant on his loss without any interruption from his auditors, whom this intelligence had struck dumb.
The manner of writing practised by Hucbald prescribed what is called parallel motion; that is, the melody of the cantus firmus and that of the descant always rose or fell together.
This method of composition is called "polyphonic;" and we have now reached the period at which the art of descant developed into the art of counterpoint, upon which polyphonic writing rests.
She had heard him descant upon it 'much to the admiration of those who had no expectation of his skill in such matters.
Johnson, which will be a valuable text for many decent old dowagers, and other good company, in various circles to descant upon.
Tis plain indeed, for truth nodescant needs; Una's her name, she cannot be divided.
Then let us solace, and in love's delight And sweet embracings spend the livelong night; And whilst love mounts her on her wanton wings, Let descant run on music's silver strings.
On this congenial theme the old man continued to descant for some time.
The Priest--who expects him to descant On duty with more zeal and less cant?
They dare not quite dethrone Sardinia's Prince: But they may descant on my dulness till They sting me into even praying them Grant leave to hide my head, resign my state, And end the coil.
She knew her father, and was proud to descant upon his honor and rank, yet must either associate with negroes or nobody, for it would be the death of caste for a white woman, however mean, to associate with her.
A number of the first citizens were present, and among them the Captain recognised Colonel S--, who approached and began to descant upon the sale of the woman.
What I suffered in the vessel I will not now descant upon--nor mention the pleasure I received from the sight of the rocky coast.
Public affairs I do not descant on, except to tell you that they write now with great freedom and truth; and this liberty of the press will overthrow the Jacobins, I plainly perceive.
So might a critic of our own day descant upon the popular predilection for the cheap novel, or the whole desert of sensation-fodder which pours from the all too rapid machines of the Fiction Trusts.
I will not descant upon it here, as a book on Spanish romance and legend is scarcely the place for a disquisition on the occult.
