- brated dramatitt 
a AR 
“in order to draw the founds the clearer, the thumbs are 
“ot with a little wire pin. fet 
' np, Silver, or Prize Harp at the £i or feffion 
of bs bards and minftrels, , fs 
queen Elizabeth,’ at Caerwys, in North Wales. 
nant’s Tour -in ~ rth Wales 1773, printed 1778.) This 
was reviving an ancient cuftom in the prifcipality, as the 
Welth asa aa annalifts paral us that Gruffidd ap Co- 
nan, prince of Wales, eftablifhed a congrefs or mecting of 
matt about the year 1100, who underwent a 
prizes, 
ers of er 
public examination for degrees their art, and for 
h w ver wea with nine itrings, 
of hon 
the chief o whic 
arps is fill eaceatl ed in Sf si ah 
colleétion of Carbro-Britith ra of the Moityn  fa- 
mily, and another in Dr. s colleStion, we thall give 
anexact ara iencstien of it in vf oF our plates of thithcal 
inftruments. 
Harp, fEolus’s. See Gibbs Lie 
Harp, in Mythology, is the fyrsbel ° Apollo. 
Harp, in the Manege. See Grappe. 
Harp Land, in Geography, an ifland : the South Pa- 
the career of La Ha 
appointed i in the ‘ninth year of arrefts the 
(Pen- - 
HAR 
s imach 1 more vaft and bili. 
{cience and learning, he embraces a!l ages in which literature 
has flourifhed. Every celebrated work is analyzed and oe 
cuffed. The beauties of the feveral writers are happ pily di 
played, and their faults pointed out with all the bile of 
be moft lively and found criticifm. That which diftinguifhes 
arpe from other moderns who have treated of litera 
abe is, that he always affumes wo a of the work he 
are a merit which we find in of the 
cept 
the ind, we b 
father of poetry to decorate his difcourfe. 
Demofthenes and Cicero, all the great interefts of Athens 
and Rome are reproduced under his pen. If Tacitus is his 
theme, we are inftantly tranfported to the age of the empe- 
cific ocean, fo called from its figure by M. Bougain- his courfe of inftruétion. Under the nib Robetpiere 
Me in 1768. It was inhabited. 5S. Tat. 18°. W. long. La Harpe was caean into prifon, where he lon 
between the living and the dead, uncertain each hour to 
TIARPAGE, in Ornithology. See Harpy — —. Pa had, however, the happinefs 
HARPAGIUS, in Antiquity. | See Anpacivs be forgotten in his d from which he was liberated 
HARPALUDS, in Biography, a celebrated Greek aftro- Shar ther the death of the montter orks — him there 
nomer, who i ut 4 the Chriftian néw ftorm arofe, and e was driven to feek 
era, invented a new cycle which went by his name, and which stair in a {pot im ak: to all but faithful fei 
ton, the fon nias, proved it Being in this fituation deprived of exercife, his health rapidly 
to be ecroneank, and pu lifhed his own, or the cycle of bot aceted and in February 1803 he died, in the sth year 
is {till in sacs Raat kdows sae the of hisa La Harpe had, like many of his countrymen, 
umber.’ 
— Fags which 
the “ golden n 
_HARPATH » in 2 tel pny a river of America, in 
Fenn eneffee, after courfe of about 40 miles, 
elf into Cumberland river 5 19 miles N.W. o 
HARPE, Jean FPRANGOIS DELA, in Biography, a cele- 
pr 
and on was born at Paris, November 
nts abo was 
nized by M. Affelin, principal of the of H 
who admitted him as one of his papas 
his literary caree i 
were at that time mach 3 in iF cep ‘In this ftyle oe secliieay 
there were feveral candidates for lar , but the 
ublic Gillette were divided between La Harpe and Dorat. 
} viene of pope and real tafte the performance of La 
rior. i eet putin a claim for 
honours of as cademy, and thofe of the theatre. 
He obtained the firft by his cology on Charles V., and fuc- 
cels in this initance } ed him to increafe his 
been a Frevthinkel, treating ‘the Chriftian fy item cote 
tempt, ti during his soe the ref he had an opportunity 
Hailes a Maned ory, the name of a kind of 
fith of very great old It is of the genus of the dolium 
or concha globofa. See Lyra. 
Harpe a Pedal, = in Mufe, a harp with pedals ad 
produce: the half notes 
ich 
8 inftrument, arene were both 
and 
which by a  efonbes motion = the han 
It was fome time after this expe an 4 was put in peace, 
pepsin the fecret ¥ producing the half notes by 
co 
clechead Wik Shek d'aceney ia ie kink of conumtonk: “he tars » we firft heard the pedal harp at Paris and Brul- 
a writer for the flage, we have Warwick, Coriolanus, fels, where a rument was amecese of an elegant form, 
Phil s, Jo of Naples, Menzicoff, and eaunafally: otis thented Its tone was ‘tithe iitingts 
and.o n wep pd oF the molt minute fhades of piano, = the mott 
no one more becoming to af 
by meso Poet for the half notes, it is lef cumbrous 
fs: unwieldy, and more eafy of performance e than our dousie- 
e 
The compafs of thefe harps of new conftruétion was 
Ft Group Soubbe BW teitietiale, 46 F in altiffimo. This 
