...his day, is rather severe ; but, being in the day of reformation, allowance must be made. He says, " Almost every pedant, after learning his eight notes, has commenced author ; with geniuses generally as sterile as the deserts of Arabia, has attempted to rival the great masters of...

...beautiful, the nervous, the concise, the dry, and the bombastic. . . . This latter consists in labored notes and strains, disconnected from any exalted ideas,...peculiarly fruitful. Almost every pedant, after learning the eight notes, has commenced author. With a genius sterile as the deserts of Arabia, he has attempted...

...this point we turn to An Essay on Music (Boston, 1808) by the distinguished educator John Hubbard: Almost every pedant, after learning his eight notes,...has commenced author. With a genius, sterile as the deserts of Arabia, he has attempted to rival the great masters of music. On the leaden wings of dullness,...

...called, in contrast, "the bombastic" was one in which "our unfortunate country has been particularly fruitfuL Almost every pedant, after learning his eight notes, has commenced author. On the leaden wings of dullness, he has attempted to soar into those regions of science, never penetrated...