| 1841 - 744 pages
...the music of the spheres : " From harmony — from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." And of the general eflect of music, take the oft-quoted lines of Congreve, " Music hath charms to soothe... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...the music of the spheres : ' From harmony — from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.' And of the general effect of music, take the oft-quoted lines of Congreve, ' Music hath charms to soothe... | |
| Magic - 1843 - 320 pages
...beauty of these lines — " ' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began j From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man."' " I confess, they have ever appeared to me fraught with the deepest meaning." Chaudon listened to my... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren... | |
| George Field - Color - 1845 - 334 pages
...and unresolved discordances. " From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." — DRYDEN. 255. All the scales of harmony in colour, sound, &c., are framed of alternate concord and... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...ohey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Tbrough all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ! When Jubal struck the corded shell, His listening bretbren... | |
| Freemasonry - 1846 - 526 pages
...arrangement of number. Thus Dryden — From harmony, from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Pythagoras asserted, according to Censorinus, that " the world is made according to musical proportion... | |
| Mrs. Silver - 1846 - 356 pages
...retired for the night, " that ' From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man ; ' who that has felt Nature's loveliest scenes steal over the heart, giving it a foretaste of heaven,... | |
| Agriculture - 1846 - 716 pages
...and exclaim with the poet: " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." In contemplating the changes that have taken place in the succession of continents, the two immediately... | |
| Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...following is a poetical example of this kind from Dryden;— " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran; The diapason closing full in man." This universal frame began; The Fourth species may be denominated Learned Nonsense. The following is... | |
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