Biography
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John Playford (1623-1686) - Gerards Mistresse, No. 55, Musicks Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-Way, 1652
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Performed by Phillip W. Serna Read more about this topic: John Playford Famous quotes containing the word biography:“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.” “In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.” “The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.” |