 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...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. . . . Men that do look on my outside, pursuing only my condition and fortune, do err in my altitude;... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of...sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music. Thus some, whose temper... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of...sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonica!, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music. Thus some, whose temper... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures...sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is an harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music : thus some, whose... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God, — such a melody to the ear, as the whole i sound] All the .Wvv and Edts. 1642 said adequately on the subject of murick read, "vocal sound."... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is au hieroglyphics! and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of...of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the cars of God. SIR THOMAS BROWN. There be in music certain figures or tropes, almost agreeing with the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures...sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonical, and has its nearest sympathy unto music : thus some, whose temper... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers— it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of...well understood, would afford the understanding ; in short, it is a sensible fit of harmony which intellectually sounds in the ear of God. I will not say,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...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...well understood, would afford the understanding." It is from such hints and suggestions of thought that Browne, as Wordsworth, plumes his wings and raises... | |
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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 ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers... 
