The productions of Tallis, Birde, Morley, and Farrant, of Gibbons and Child, of Blow and Purcell, of Croft, Greene, Boyce, Nares, and we might add others, are not only excellent qguoad compositions, but equally perfect as forming a part of our religious worship: they never for a moment lose the true devotional character, though their difference from each other, in many respects, is as wide as the several periods at which they were written.