 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...THINKING HIGH : That Fools enough have travell'd up the Rhine; vinity more than the Ear discovert; it it an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the Whole...Melody to the Ear, as the whole world, well understood, mould afford the Understanding — a sensible fit of that Harmony which Intellectually sounds in the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...and tavern music, which makes one man Merry and another Mad, itrikei in me a deep fit of Devotion, and a profound contemplation of the FIRST COMPOSER; there is something in it of DiThe grand basis of Christianity is broad enough for the whole bulk of Mankind to stand on, and join... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Omar Khayyam - 1904 - 268 pages
...and tavern music, which makes one man Merry and another Mad, strikes in me a deep fit of Devotion, and a profound contemplation of the FIRST COMPOSER...the whole world, well understood, would afford the Understanding—a sensible fit of that Harmony which Intellectually sounds in the Ears of God." —Sir... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - Christianity and literature - 1904 - 258 pages
...merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of my Maker ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers." I pause in the quotation to remark that Sir Thomas here touches a common experience, namely, that music,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Art, Italian - 1906 - 512 pages
...is not in them ' more than the ear discovers.' They are not, to quote Sir Thomas Browne again, ' a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God.' Palestrina and Stradella, Pergolese and Salvator Rosa, move in a region less mystical and pregnant... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...even that tavern-musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer....it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God, — such a melody to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1908 - 450 pages
...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 hic-roglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the... | |
 | Caroline Hazard - Sermons, American - 1910 - 234 pages
...and we have spirit. In music there is something more of divinity than the ear discovers : it is " a shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures...world well understood, would afford the understanding ... it is that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God." Can we not conceive that that... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1906 - 1034 pages
...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....as the whole world, well understood, would afford understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1851 - 702 pages
...and tavern music •which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and profound contemplation of the first Composer. There...it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God, — such a melody to... | |
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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... 
