| Phrenology - 1837 - 770 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly hannony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man." What Pythagoras called numbers, Plato designated ideas, a term that has descended to us, though in... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power ohey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame hegan ; From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. ll. What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Juhal struck the corded shell, His listening hrethren... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...stations leap, And miufc'a power obey. From harmony, from heav'nly harmuny, This universal frame began : to mankind, who teaches ˂р 0 i F "8 1837 G. Dearborn"# Johnson Samuel la man. The conclusion is likewise striking ; but it in eludes an image so awful in itself, that it... | |
| Andrews Norton - Bible - 1844 - 466 pages
...acknowledged Dryden as his expositor : " From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began ; From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes, it ran." " More obscure than the numbers of Plato," or " More obscure than the Timeeus of Plato," (the true... | |
| 1841 - 754 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... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...words and phrases. Example 2. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, Tins universal frame began ; Trom harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.t Analysis. This is of the same signature with the former ; there is not even a glimpse of meaning... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1839 - 316 pages
...favourite words and phrases. Example 2. 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.t Analysis. This is of the same signature with the former ; there is not even a glimpse of meaning... | |
| Scotland - 1840 - 906 pages
...stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man."' Begging the Doctor's pardon, will you not agree with me that this is rather too strong of the conceit... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...slatinns leap, Ami music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, Tlii* universal frame began. From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.1 The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful in itself, that it can... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...favourite words and phrases. Example 2. 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.t , Analysis. This is of the same signature with the former ; there is not even a glimpse of meaning... | |
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