The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 |
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... sweet power of its universal language . We have said that poetry possesses greater capabilities than music for expressing definite thought at will the indefiniteness of musical utterance , however , is , to those who look deep enough ...
... sweet power of its universal language . We have said that poetry possesses greater capabilities than music for expressing definite thought at will the indefiniteness of musical utterance , however , is , to those who look deep enough ...
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... sweet accord , alike true in affection ? Is not the trope of music , to avoid or slide from the close or cadence , common with the trope of rhetoric of deceiving expectation ? Is not the delight of the quavering upon a stop in music the ...
... sweet accord , alike true in affection ? Is not the trope of music , to avoid or slide from the close or cadence , common with the trope of rhetoric of deceiving expectation ? Is not the delight of the quavering upon a stop in music the ...
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... sweet alone . The sliding from the close or cadence , hath an agreement with the figure of rhetoric , which they call ' Præter expectatum ; ' for there is a pleasure even in being deceived . The Repeats and Fugues have an agree- ment ...
... sweet alone . The sliding from the close or cadence , hath an agreement with the figure of rhetoric , which they call ' Præter expectatum ; ' for there is a pleasure even in being deceived . The Repeats and Fugues have an agree- ment ...
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... sweet compelling power , all diverging from , and converging in Love , its grand key note . One law of order rules the psychical and the physical . Shakspere makes Ferdinand say— " This music crept by me upon the waters ; Allaying both ...
... sweet compelling power , all diverging from , and converging in Love , its grand key note . One law of order rules the psychical and the physical . Shakspere makes Ferdinand say— " This music crept by me upon the waters ; Allaying both ...
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... sweet , soothing influences . Truly the poet sings of Apollo- " Music exalts each joy , allays each grief , Expels diseases , softens every pain , Subdues the rage of poison and the plague ; And hence the wise of ancient days regarded ...
... sweet , soothing influences . Truly the poet sings of Apollo- " Music exalts each joy , allays each grief , Expels diseases , softens every pain , Subdues the rage of poison and the plague ; And hence the wise of ancient days regarded ...
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