1808.]}. 
_ ty, as there is in so many of his airs; the 
-e 
powers of Handel, as of N7"'ton and of 
Homer in the sublime, his pure and ex- 
alted greatness, his divine enthusiasm, 
the astonishing extent of his resources, 
and his application of them in the two 
great departments of invention and com- 
position, become more admirable as they 
are more amiable. 
Perhaps we may hope that the inves- 
tigation will be extended to his operas ; 
and to the present state of the’ Itahan 
“opera in England. 
I believe that it will not be questioned 
that the serious Italian opera in the best 
examples of it, ranks next to the ora- 
torio in the scale of musical exceilence. 
And I believe it will be equally acknow- 
ledged that in proportion as the highest, 
the middle, or the lowest, style of Italian 
music shall be in favor, and the public 
ear habituated ‘to it, and to imitations 
of it, the state of our vocal, and eventual- 
ly of our instrumental music (which will 
never long be of a better character than 
the vocal), cannot fail to correspond. with 
the elevation or depression of ‘our stand- 
ard to be either pure and perfect, or 
mixt and corrupted, or low and wretch- 
ed. 
The musical learning of which Handel 
was master, seems to have been like the 
poetical of Milton, most comprehensive, 
profound, and-various. And the genc- 
ral energies, the originality, and inven- 
tive genius of these twa: wonderful men, 
far from being impaired, seem to have 
been refined; heigtitened, and*perfected, 
by the habitual’ contemplation’ of such; 
and so many kinds and modifications of 
excellence, national and individual, on 
which they exercised their attention. 
The generous exclamation of Tasso, ‘ 1f 
he had not seen my Aimyntas, he would 
not have excelled it,’ is no less applica- 
ble to music. Your’s, &c: 
Troston, Capex. Lorrr. 
October 28, 1808. 
a 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
A provincial VocaBULARY 3 contajning, 
Jor the most Part, such WORDS as are 
current among the common PropLy of 
DEVONSHIRE and CORNWALL.— 1808, 
Pile letter A is seldom pronounced 
» Open, but close, as Pallas, Palladio. 
- Thus it is salter, not saulter; halter, not 
haulter; malster, not maulster ;. Hulden, 
‘not Hauldon. 
A is sometimes used for O; as tap for 
top. . 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vocabulary. 
42a 
A is often prefixed. toa word; as “the 
mutton is a-roasting;” “ the’ beef is at 
boiling.” E..C. (or East of Cornwall.) 
Aboo, above, C. (or Cornwall), Over 
andiaboo, i e. into the bargain. 
Abroad, in pieces, asunder. “ T’ll tear 
it abroad ;” “scat albabroad.” C. 
Adam and Eve, the male and female 
hunded orchis, if Lcouceive rightly. 
Withering, II. 27, 28, (8vo edit. 1796.) 
Addle-ege. “ Better be an addle-ege 
than a pretty maid, and the boys know’t,” 
Bishop Littelton’s MSS. 
Aeker (Sax.) acre, D. (or Devonian.) 
Affeard, afraid. y 
Agaigst, in exchange, “ silver against) 
a guinea ;” iw compurison, young against 
him ;” by the time, “ against 1 got there 
it was’ night;” to meet a person, “Iam 
going out against him.” 
Agast, afraid, astonished. D. 
Avest, terrified; (Gr. ayagos.) Ex. 
(or Exmere dialect.) 
Ago, just- gone, nearly. dead. “ The 
blue of the plum is ago, zare.” C. NiD, 
(or North of Devon.) 
Agging, egging on, raising quarrels, 
aggravating. Ex. 
Aglet, the fruit of the hawthorn; the 
haw—perhaps eglet, from eglantine; the 
fruit of the briar. C. 
Akether, guoth he. Ex. Akether, id. Cy 
_ Alkitotle, a silly elf. Ex. 
All abroad, open. ‘ The door is all 
abroad ;” ‘ the door is open.” — C. 
Aller, a-pinswell, a whitloe. D. 
Allerbury, (Sax.) « plantation of al- 
ders. D. 
Allernbatch, an old sore, a botch. Ex. 
Ammut, am not. 5 rig 
An, than. “ More an zo,” i. e. “ more 
thun so”’—a common phrase with the 
Exmoorians for moreover. 
Aneest, near. * | won’t go aneest en;” 
T won’t go near him.” C. 
Angle-bowing; a method of fencing 
sheep-grounds in and about Exmoor, by 
fixing rods like bows, with both ends in 
the ground, where they.make angles with 
each other. Ex, 
Angle-twitch, or titch, the earth-worm. 
Anon, to-night. 
Antle-beer, cross-wise, irregular. Ex. 
Apple-bee, a wasp. C. 
Apple-bird, the chaffinch. -C. 
Aprill’d, soured, or turning sour, as 
applied to milk, beer, &e. D. 
Apurt, sullen, silent, with a glouting 
look, Ix. 
Aquott, squatted, weary of eating. D. 
Quott, id. C. aki se 
2 Arg, 
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