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DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE ILLUSTRATING 
MUSIC. 
APOLLO, HAVING OBTAINED IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE GODS THE POSSESSION OF 
THE LYRE. (SEE HOMER’S HYMN,*) LEAVES THE MELODIOUS SPHERES OF THE HEAVENS, 
AND BRINGS HARMONY UPON THE EARTH.—THE ELEMENT OF AIR PRESENTS HIM ON 
HIS WAY WITH THE WIND-INSTRUMENTS PREVIOUSLY INVENTED, TIIE SYRINX AND THE 
FLUTE. THE TERRESTRIAL ABODE OF THE MUSES, THE SUMMIT OF HELICON, WITH 
PEGASUS AND THE CASTALIAN SPRINGS, ARE FAINTLY DELINEATED ON ONE SIDE; AND, 
ON THE OTHER, A DISTANT VISION OF MODERN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, THE ORGAN, 
THE VIOLIN, THETRUMPET, THE HARP,&c. AND A PASTORAL DANCE WHICH ORIGINATED 
FROM MUSIC, ARE SEEN IN VARIOUS GROUPS. THE SEVEN PLANETS SURROUNDING THE 
GOD OF LIGHT AND SOUND, THE SEVEN STARS OF THE BEAR, THE PLEIADES WHO WERE 
ORIGINALLY SEVEN, AND PART OF THE RAINBOW, ALLUDE TO THE SEPTIFORM SYSTEM 
OF HARMONY WHICH SEEMS TO PERVADE THE WHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE. 
* Em pot xtQixpn; re (ptXri xa.y.'jrvXa. roi-cc, 
Xpna-v r uvOpvirotcri o? vripepreoc. fixXriv. 
Let the ftrong bow and vocal lyre be mine, 
All men I’ll teach Jove’s mighty will divine. 
Homer's Hymn to Apollo. 
No. 1156. 
