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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Melopiano

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mell, Davis

From volume 2 of the work.
​MELL, Davis; familiarly called Davie Mell. An eminent Violinist and Clockmaker, resident in London, about the middle of the 17th century, and honourably mentioned by Aubrey and Anthony á Wood. In the year 1657, he visited Oxford, where, as we learn from Wood's Diary, 'Peter Pett, Will. Bull, Ken. Digby, and others of Allsoules, as also A. W. did give him a very handsome entertainment in the Taverne cal'd "The Salutation" in S. Marie's Parish … The Company did look upon Mr. Mell to have a prodigious hand on the Violin, & they thought that no person, as all in London did, could goe beyond him. But, when Tho. Baltzar, an Outlander, came to Oxon. in the next yeare, they had other thoughts of Mr. Mell, who, tho he play'd farr sweeter than Baltzar, yet Baltzar's hand was more quick, & could run it insensibly to the end of the Fingerboard.' [See Baltzar, Thomas.]
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mellon, Alfred

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Melodists' Club, The

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Melisma

From volume 2 of the work.
​MELISMA (Gr. Μέλισμα, a Song). Any kind of Air, or Melody, as opposed to Recitative, or other music of a purely declamatory character. Thus, Mendelssohn employs the term in order to distinguish the Mediation and Ending of a Gregorian Tone from the Dominant, or Reciting Note. Other writers sometimes use it (less correctly) in the sense of Fioritura, or even Cadenza.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burrough, John

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​BURROUGH. (Lieut., 1827. f-p., 12; h-p., 17.)
John Burrough was born, 28 Feb. 1802, at Brampton, co. Cumberland.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Morgiana 18, Capt. Chas. Burrough Strong, under whom, and his successors, Capts. Alex. Albert Sandilands, Wm. Finlaison, and Christ. Knight, he served with great activity in suppression of the slave-traffic on the coast of Africa, part of the time as Midshipman, until Aug. 1822. He then removed to the Blossom 26, Capts. Thos. Bourchier and Archibald Maclean, on the South American station; joined, in June, 1824, the Bulwark 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, lying at Portsmouth; passed his examination 7 Feb. 1825; became Mate, 3 Dec. 1826, of the Asia 84, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Codrington; and, at the close of the battle of Navarin, was promoted, 21 Oct. 1827, to a vacancy caused by the death of Lieut. G. W. H. Fitzroy, in the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, from which ship he was paid off in March, 1830. Lieut. Burrough was next appointed, 9 March, 1832, to the Harrier 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall, for a passage to the East Indies to join the Melville 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Gore, by whom, however, on his arrival, he was immediately, and to his great mortification, sent home again in the Cruizer 18, Capt. John Parker, to be paid off. After an unemployed interval of a twelvemonth he became attached, 16 Jan. 1834, to the Edinburgh 74, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the Mediterranean station, but in the following July was compelled to invalid, in consequence of a very aggravated species of epilepsy, originally contracted on the coast of Africa. His last appointment, which was, 31 Jan. 1844, as First-Lieutenant, to the Tortoise store ship, commanded by his former Captain, Wm. Finlaison, he was for the same reason unable to retain, and he has been therefore doomed, since the March of that year, to a helpless half-pay.
Lieut. Burrough married, 27 July, 1843, Ann, daughter of the late Jas. Wainwright, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burroughes, Henry Negus

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​BURROUGHES. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Henry Negus Burroughes, born in 1821, is a younger son of Henry Negus Burroughes, Esq., of Burlingham Hall, M.P. for East Norfolk, by Jane Sarah, sister of the late gallant Sir Wm. Hoste, Bart., Capt. R.N.
This officer entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 11 July, 1840; and served as Mate, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, and Firebrand steam frigate, Capts. Armar Lowry Corry and Jas. Hope. He obtained his commission 6 Feb. 1845; then joined the Stix steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Windham Hornby, on the coast of Africa; was next appointed, 15 Oct. following, to the President 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres; and since the summer of 1846 has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burrows, Montagu

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​BURROWS. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Montagu Burrows entered the Navy 14 Aug. 1833; and served for some time as Fst.-cl. Vol. on board the Andromache 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the East Indies, where he was frequently detached in the boats to act against the pirates in the Straits of Malacca. He passed his examination 4 Sept. 1839; afterwards joined, as Mate, the Edinburgh 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, with whom he served during the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, in 1840; was next attached for two years to the Excellent, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, gunnery-ship at Portsmouth; and, on 7 July, 1843, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. Burrows, on 20 of the latter month, became an Additional Lieutenant of the Winchester 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Hon. Josceline Percy. He removed, 12 March, 1844, to the Sappho 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, on the same station; and, since 4 Nov. 1846, has been re-employed in the Excellent, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burt, William (a)

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​BURT. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
William Burt (a) entered the Navy in 1813; served for six years and eight months in the West Indies; was there promoted, 6 Dec. 1824; and since 1825 has been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burslem, Godolphin James

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​BURSLEM. (Lieut., 1838. f-p., 19; h-p., 5.)
Godolphin James Burslem is second son of Jas. Godolphin Burslem, Esq., late of the Royal Artillery, who lost a leg in the battle of Alexandria, 21 March, 1801; grandson of Capt. Fras. Burslem, R.N., who, when commanding the Coventry, of ​28 guns, in June, 1760, fought, on one day, a most gallant action with two French frigates, one of whom was sunk, and the other, La Mouche, taken; and great-grandson of Jas. Burslem, Esq., M.P., who married a heiress of the Godolphin family.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Dec. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Lively 42, Capt. Wm. Elliott. He afterwards obtained, in common with others, a medal for his services off Lisbon during the commotions created by Don Miguel, whom he ultimately escorted to Brest; and he then proceeded, as Midshipman, to the West Indies. In Dec. 1826, he joined the Satellite 18, Capt. John Milligan Laws, and, after visiting the East Indies, New South Wales, the Friendly and Society Islands, New Zealand, &c., and receiving a severe injury from the natives of an island to which he had been detached in search of deserters from Sydney, joined, in Oct. 1829, the Cruizer 18, Capts. John Edw. Griffith Colpoys and Jas. Lamport Parkin, and was for some time very actively employed on the Swan River. He passed his examination 13 Jan. 1831, and, returning the next day, as Mate, to the Satellite, Capts. John Parker and Marcus Theodore Hare, at Trincomalee, came home and was paid off in May, 1832. Mr. Burslem was subsequently appointed, in Nov. of the same year, to the Forester 3, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Henry Quin; and, in March, 1833, in consequence of the serious damage experienced by that vessel on the Scilly Islands, where she had been recently cast away in a violent hurricane, he was turned over, with the same officer, to the Britomart 10. In the latter we find him serving for three years on the coast of Africa in suppression of the slave-trade, and, during a conflict with the Apolonians, employed in her cutter covering the landing of the troops. He invalided home from an attack of fever in Aug. 1836, but returned to the coast of Africa in the Dolphin 3, Lieut.-Commander Campbell, in March, 1837, and on 15 Jan. 1838, obtained his commission. He was confirmed in the command of the Viper 6, at the Cape, in July following; paid that vessel off in Jan. 1841; and was afterwards appointed – 11 May, 1841, to the Dublin 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas – and, 20 Aug. ensuing, to the command of the Lynx 3, employed on the Lisbon and Irish stations. A return of the African fever obliged him to invalid in Aug. 1843, and he has since been on half-pay. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burstal, Edward

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​BURSTAL. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Edward Burstal passed his examination 27 Oct. 1840, and served, as Mate, in the Fearless, Tartarus, and Porcupine steam surveying-vessels, all commanded by Capt. Fred. Bullock, with whom, since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 Jan. 1846, he has continued employed in the Porcupine, on the river Thames.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burt, William (b)

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​BURT. (Lieutenant, 1835. f-p., 31; h-p., 5.)
William Burt (b) was born in 1799 at Plymouth. This officer entered the Navy, 13 Nov. 1811, as a Supernumerary, on board the Salvador del Mundo 98, Capt. Nash, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Robt. Calder; removed, 1 Aug. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., to the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer, on the Newfoundland station; and, on 3 March, 1814, became Midshipman of the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He afterwards served in the Chesapeake 36, Capt. Fras. Newcombe – Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, under whom he participated, 27 Aug. 1816, in the bombardment of Algiers – and Impregnable 104, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Lord Exmouth at Plymouth. Being discharged 31 Oct. 1817, Mr. Burt continued unemployed until Dec. 1821, when, joining the Carnation 18, Capt. John Edw. Walcott, he proceeded to the West Indies. In Oct. 1823, a few months after passing his examination, he was transferred to the Union schooner, Lieut.-Commander Henderson, and in that vessel he appears to have been strenuously employed in the suppression of piracy. In Dec. 1825, he became Mate of the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst. He officiated, as Chief, ​from April, 1826, until Jan. 1835, of the Camelion and Shamrock Revenue-cruizers; and at length, on 7 of the latter month, having been 12 years a Mate, was promoted, for good conduct and active service, to his present rank. Since 11 June, 1835, Lieut. Burt has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
He married, 19 Aug. 1830, Grace, daughter of the late John Macalister, Esq., of Balnakill House, co. Argyll, and by that lady has issue four children. Agemts – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burridge, Richard

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​BURRIDGE. (Captain, 1846.)
Richard Burridge entered the Navy, 2 Sept. 1808, on board the Skylark 16, Capt. Henry Evelyn ​Pitfield Sturt, on the North Sea station, and afterwards served, until the establishment of peace, with the same officer, and Capts. Geo. Wm. Hughes D’Aeth, Rich. Buck, and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, in the Termagant 28, and Rainbow 32. While attached to the Termagant he assisted, under Capt. Sturt, at the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat in 1810, and was frequently in hostile collision with the enemy’s gun-vessels and batteries on the coasts of Italy and Spain. In the Rainbow Mr. Burridge witnessed the fall of Genoa in April, 1814. Between the latter period and the receipt of his first commission, 10 Nov. 1824, he successively joined, on the West India, Newfoundland, and Mediterranean stations, the Esk 20, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, Drake 10, Capts. Wm. Nugent Glascock and Octavius F. C. Venables Vernon, and Phaeton 46, Capt. H. E. P. Sturt. His appointments as Lieutenant appear to have been — 4 July, 1826, to the Pelorus 18, Capts. Wm. Hamley and Peter Richards, on the last-named station — 25 June, 1830, as First, to the Wolf 18, Capt. Wm. Hamley, in the East Indies — and, 10 May, 1834, in the same capacity, to the Portland 62, Capt. Wm. Price, again in the Mediterranean. He was awarded a second promotal commission 28 June, 1838; and, on 11 March, 1841, was selected to command the Thunderer 84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring, in which ship he served for some time in the Mediterranean and at the Cape of Good Hope, as well as in attendance upon the Queen off Walmer Castle in Nov. and Dec. 1842. Capt. Burridge, who has been unemployed since Oct. 1843, at which period the Thunderer was placed out of commission, attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
He married, 2 April, 1845, Mary, relict of the late Geo. Green, Esq., merchant, and daughter of the late Thos. Hurd, Esq., of Ewell Court, Surrey. He became a widower 12 April, 1846. Agents — Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Burroughs, Sackville

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​BURROUGHS. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
Sackville Burroughs entered the Navy, 26 Jan, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rattler 24, Capt. Fras. Mason, and was for many months, while stationed off Ostend and Dieppe, constantly engaged in warmly conflicting with the enemy’s flotilla. In Jan. 1805, he removed, as Midshipman, to the Diadem 64, Commodore Sir Home Popham, whom he ultimately accompanied in the expeditions to the Cape of Good Hope and Buenos Ayres. He was next, from Dec. 1806, until July, 1808, employed, in succession, on board the Sampson 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, Leda 36, Capt. Robt. Honyman, and Namur 74, Vice-Admiral Wells, on the South American, Cork, and Nore stations. He then joined the Venerable 74, Capt. Andrew King, in which ship he attended the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809; and he afterwards served, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1812, in the Fisgard 36, Capt. Fras. Mason, and Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, both employed in the Baltic, where he contributed to the capture of several privateers. Mr. Burroughs was subsequently, on 12 May, 1813, appointed to the San Josef 110, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Rich. King, under whom he witnessed, 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814, the partial engagements between Sir Edw. Pellew and the Toulon fleet. He was paid off in Aug. of the latter year, and has not since been employed.
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in Remembrance, 1831

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A Poem of Felicia Hemans in Remembrance, 1831
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* Music from Shore
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in Remembrance, 1831/Music from Shore

MUSIC FROM SHORE.
By Mrs. Hemans.
A sound comes on the rising breeze,
 A sweet and lovely sound!
Piercing the tumult of the seas,
 That wildly dash around.
From land, from sunny land, it comes,
 From hills with murmuring trees,
From paths by still and happy homes—
 That sweet sound on the breeze!
Why should its faint and passing sigh
 Thus bid my quick pulse leap?
—No part in Earth's glad melody
 Is mine upon the deep.
Yet blessing, blessing, on the spot
 Whence those rich breathings flow!
Kind hearts, although they know me not,
 Like mine thus beat and glow.
And blessings, from the bark that roams
 O'er solitary seas,
To those that far in happy homes
 Give sweet sounds to the breeze!
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Bijou, 1828/The Child and Flowers

* The Child and Flowers.
* Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence P. R.A.Engraved by W. Humphreys
THE CHILD AND FLOWERS.
By Mrs. Hemans.
All good and guiltless as thou art,
Some transient griefs will touch thy heart,
Griefs that along thy altered face
Will breathe a more subduing grace,
Than even those looks of joy that lie
On the soft cheek of infancy.
Wilson.
Hast thou been in the woods with the honey-bee? Hast thou been with the lamb in the pastures free?
With the hare through the copses and dingles wild?
With the butterfly over the heath, fair child?
Yes: the light fall of thy bounding feet
Hath not startled the wren from her mossy seat;
Yet hast thou ranged the green forest-dells,
And brought back a treasure of buds and bells.
Thou know'st not the sweetness, by antique song
Breathed o'er the names of that flowery throng;
The woodbine, the primrose, the violet dim,
The lily that gleams by the fountain's brim;
These are old words, that have made each grove
A dreary haunt for romance and love;
Each sunny bank, where faint odours lie
A place for the gushings of Poesy.
Thou know'st not the light wherewith fairy lore
Sprinkles the turf and the daisies o'er;
Enough for thee are the dews that sleep
Like hidden gems in the flower-urns deep;
Enough the rich crimson spots that dwell
Midst the gold of the cowslip's perfumed cell;
And the scent by the blossoming sweet-briars shed,
And the beauty that bows the wood-hyacinth's head.
Oh! happy child in thy fawn-like glee! What is remembrance or thought to thee?
Fill thy bright locks with those gifts of spring,
O'er thy green pathway their colours fling;
Bind them in chaplet and wild festoon—
What if to droop and to perish soon?
Nature hath mines of such wealth—and thou
Never wilt prize its delights as now!
For a day is coming to quell the tone
That rings in thy laughter, thou joyous one!
And to dim thy brow with a touch of care,
Under the gloss of its clustering hair;
And to tame the flash of thy cloudless eyes
Into the stillness of autumn skies;
And to teach thee that grief hath her needful part,
Midst the hidden things of each human heart!
Yet shall we mourn, gentle child! for this?
Life hath enough of yet holier bliss!
Such be thy portion!—the bliss to look
With a reverent spirit, through Nature's book;
By fount, by forest, by river's line,
To track the paths of a love divine;
To read its deep meanings—to see and hear
God in earth's garden—and not to fear!
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Bijou, 1829

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* The Sleepers
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Bijou, 1828

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* The Child and Flowers
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Bijou, 1829/The Sleepers

THE SLEEPERS.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
Sleep!—let thy mother's spirit bless her child,
And let thy sisters, to the dreaming land,
Greet thee with song!—each gentle voice be there
Of early fondness—each familiar face—
Only th' unkind be absent!
Oh! lightly, lightly tread!
A holy thing is sleep,
On the worn spirit shed,
And eyes that wake to weep:
A holy thing from heaven,
A gracious dewy cloud,
A covering mantle, given
The weary to enshroud.
Oh! lightly, lightly tread!
Revere the pale still brow,
The meekly-drooping head,
The long hairs willowy flow!
Ye know not what ye do,
That call the slumberer back,
From the world unseen by you,
Unto Life's dim faded track.
Her soul is far away,
In her childhood's land perchance,
Where her young sister's play,
Where shines her mother's glance.
Some old sweet native sound
Her spirit haply weaves;
A harmony profound
Of woods with all their leaves:
A murmur of the sea,
A laughing tone of streams:—
Long may her sojourn be
In the music-land of dreams!
Each voice of love is there,
Each gleam of beauty fled,
Each lost one still more fair—
Oh! lightly, lightly tread!
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in New Year's Gift, 1830/The Recall

Text taken from a song published in Atkinson’s Casket, 1835, pages 465-467 Music by Mrs. Hemans’ sister, as noted in National Lyrics, 1834
THE RECALL.
I. O'er the far blue mountain,  O'er the white sea foam, Come thou long-parted one,  Back to thy home. When the bright fire shineth,  Sad looks thy place, While the true heart pineth,  Missing thy face. O'er the far blue mountain,  O'er the white sea foam, Come thou long-parted one!  Back to thy home!
 II. Music is sorrowful,  Since thou art gone— Sisters are mourning thee,  Come to thine own! Hark! The home-voices call  Back to thy rest; Come to thy father's hall,  Thy mother's breast! O'er the far blue mountain,  O'er the white sea foam, Come thou long-parted one,  Back to thy home!
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Amulet, 1830/A Domestic Scene

A DOMESTIC SCENE.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
"The priest-like father reads the sacred page." The Cotter's Saturday Night.
I. 'Twas early day—and sunlight stream'd
 Soft thro' a quiet room,
That hush'd, but not forsaken, seem'd—
 Still, but with nought of gloom:
For there, secure in happy age,
 Whose hope is from above,
A father communed with the page
 Of Heaven's recorded love.
II. Pure fell the beam, and meekly bright,
 On his grey holy hair,
And touch'd the book with tenderest light,
 As if its shrine were there: But oh! that Patriarch's aspect shone
 With something lovelier far—
A radiance all the spirit's own,
 Caught not from sun or star.
III. Some word of life ev'n then had met
 His calm benignant eye;
Some ancient promise, breathing yet
 Of Immortality;
Some heart's deep language, where the glow
 Of quenchless faith survives; For every feature said—"I know
 That my Redeemer lives."
IV.
And silent stood his children by,
 Hushing their very breath
Before the solemn sanctity
 Of thoughts o'ersweeping death:
Silent—yet did not each young breast
 With love and reverence melt?
Oh! blest be those fair girls—and blest
 That home where God is felt!
# A Poem of Felicia Hemans in The Amulet, 1830

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* A Domestic Scene