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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 devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 218
1841
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

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. . . ....
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

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...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

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...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 5

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...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature ..., Volumes 3-4

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...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 10-11

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

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...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

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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