10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JIGGISH»
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The Cambridge History of American Music
The "light, airy, jiggish Tune[s]" they sang were taken from the publications of
contemporary English country psalmodists such as John Arnold, William Knapp,
Joseph Stephenson, and William Tans'ur (see below for more on these men and
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A New Dictionary of the English Language. -London, Pickering ...
A jigge shall be clapt at, and every rhime Prais d and applauded by a clam'rous
chyme. F. Beaumont. Prologue to the Faire Maide of the I nne. She is never sad,
and yet not jiggish ; her conscience is cleare from gilt, and that secures her from ...
jiggish than the Fiddle itself, and never sounds but to dance. The fourth person
who bore a part in the conversation was a Prude, who stuck to the Trial, and was
silent upon the whole Opera. The gravity of her censures, and composure of her ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
... a good OE word of wide and varied use. Possibly from this root, firk came to
mean to press hard, strike, shake up and down; move about quickly, "be jiggish";
then, have sexual intercourse. According to Cotgravc's glossary (161 1): "firkerie,
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Joseph Twadell Shipley,
2009
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and ...
Canons; and the pomp of the chapel, and its music ; for whether jiggish or solemn
, never struck the inquiry of a thousand, who remembered the duke's
magnificence chiefly by that circumstance. And as to the many unresembling
particulars, ...
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe,
1824
His * manner is to bring an old fellow wh© has been ' his servant from his youth,
and is grey-headed : ' This man makes on the violin a certain jiggish noise, ' to
which I dance, and when that is over I sing ' to him some loose air that has more ...
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele,
1776
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by ...
... at the innovation, and stick as obstinately to the old version as to the old style.
The tunes themselves have also been new set to jiggish measures, and the
sober draw], which used to accompany the two first staves of the hundredth
psalm, ...
William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham,
1835
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The British Essayists: Connoisseur
The tunes themselves have also been new-set to jiggish measures, and the
sober drawl, which used to accompany the first two staves of the hundredth
psalm with the Gloria Patri, is now split into as many quavers as an Italian air.
James Ferguson (advocate.),
1823
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and ...
then would hum over two or three notes ; then run to the window to see what
coach was coming. The Coquette, therefore, I must distinguish by that musical
instrument which is commonly known by the name of a Kit, that is more jiggish
than the ...
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The life, and posthumous writings, of William Cowper, esqr: ...
the end of their prayer-books; while others are highly disgusted at the innovation,
and stick as obstinately to the old version as to the old stile. The tunes
themselves have also been new set to jiggish measures, and the sober drawl,
which used ...
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The result is forest of episodes (a few jiggish tunes heard through the underbrush), with so many different rhythms in each hand that one feels ... «ConcertoNet, Jan 13»