now if he had only repeated a third time—(he has done so twice)—the words ‘to war,’ the evil might have been avoided. e. g.
‘Oh! memory,’ is the graceful well known air of Carafa, beginning:—
But composers now and then are too proud
‘——meanly to borrow aid from sense,’
they too often agree with the goddess of the Stygian lake.
‘As on the shore,’ meant as a martial air, is common. No composer’s name is given.