Fifty Sermons on Handel's Messiah

When William Cowper introduced these verses into The Task in 1785 the gigantic Handel Commemoration of the preceding year still rang fresh in the ears of thousands of Englishmen. In 1783 several musical amateurs had proposed to commemorate the centenary of Handel's birth and the twenty-fifth an...

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Main Author: Myers, Robert Manson (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1946
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1946, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 217-241
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