| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...full of harmony. . . . There is in music something of divinity more than the ear discovers ; it is a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God. In brief it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. . . .... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound (vmtfmplatkm + PH r discovers : it is an hieroglyphical aud shadowed les.sou of the whole world and crea. O'erlook... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...it :s for even that vulgar and tavern-musick,4 which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical... | |
| 1836 - 352 pages
...embrace it; for evethat vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation...it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is au hieroglyphics! and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God — such a melody to... | |
| Science - 1836 - 744 pages
...harmony : for even that 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. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the... | |
| Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...harmony : for even that 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. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers; it is an hieroglyphicafand shadowed lesson of the whole... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...which makes one merry, another mad, strikes m me a deep fit of devotion and profound contemplation 01 the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers. I will not say with Plato, the sot is an harmony, but harmonica!, and hath its nearest sv pathy unto... | |
| 1837 - 568 pages
...— and ' even that vulgar and tavern music, which ' makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in him a deep fit ' of devotion and a profound contemplation of the FIRST COM' POSER. There is in it an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of ' the whole world and creatures... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...efficacy of either." &c. vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes 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 and creatures of God — such a melody... | |
| American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...says, — "Even that 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." That power of extracting deep devotion from "vulgar tavern music" is the great secret of Browne's eloquence.... | |
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