 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1857 - 376 pagina’s
...vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the first composer....well understood, would afford the understanding.' MILVERTON. A propos of music in country places, when I was going about last year in the neighbouring... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 484 pagina’s
...drowsy with the harmony." Love's Labour 's Lost, iv. 3. t See Merchant of Ven., v. 1. Milton's Arcades. hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world,...melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, Avould afford the understanding.* In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 476 pagina’s
...vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer;...of divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an * So Daniell (Complaint of Rosamond): " Ah Beauty! Syren faire, enchanting Good, Sweet silent Rhetorick... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pagina’s
...town, it harmonizes with the ' religion of the place, and you feel, as Sir Thomas Browne says, that ' there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers.' The inueddin, however, can be a great nuisance, if, as I did at Tebessa, you lodge near the mosque.... | |
 | 1864 - 390 pagina’s
...vulgar and tavern music which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the first composer...of Divinity more than the ear discovers, it is an hieroglyphioal and shallowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God, such a melody to the ear... | |
 | 1865 - 226 pagina’s
...physical, producing harmony wherever found. The harmony of gradation may be described as " a hieroglyphieal and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God," such a melody to the eye, as music gives to the ear, such, indeed, as " the whole world icell understood would afford the... | |
 | John Ormsby - 1864 - 328 pagina’s
...town, it harmonises with the ' religion of the place,' and you feel, as Sir Thomas Browne says, that ' there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers.' The muezzin, however, can be a great nuisance, if, as I did at Tebessa, you lodge near the mosque.... | |
 | Mrs. Lewis Snow - 1866 - 144 pagina’s
...Browne even says, — ' Vulgar tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a profound contemplation of the first composer. There is something in it of dignity more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1868 - 556 pagina’s
...give no sound to the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony It is a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world,...well understood, would afford the understanding." Passages of like import might be quoted from Goethe, Jean Paul, Humboldt, Emerson, Carlyle, and many... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 336 pagina’s
...in him a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the FIRST COMPOSER. There is in it a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world...well understood, would afford the understanding." It is from such hints and suggestions of thought that Browne, like Wordsworth, plumes his wings and... | |
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I do embrace it ; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotipn, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers... 
