 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...full of harmony. . . . There is in music something of divinity more than the 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. . . .... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers ; it is an...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 - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an...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 - 1831 - 362 pages
...deep fit of devotipn, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers ; it is an...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 - 1835 - 592 pages
...deep fit of devotion, and ia profound contemplation of the first composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an...of God, — such a melody to the ear, as the whole 1 found] MliheMSS.anAEdts. 1642 read, " vocal sound. " — Ed. 2 though they give no sound, Sfc. ]... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...in Twelfth Night, and Edts. 1642 read, "of my Maker." — I do not recollect more than one thing Ed. world, well understood, would afford the understanding....harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God.6 I will not say, with Plato,7 the soul is an harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...in him a deep fit ' of devotion and a profound contemplation of the FIRST COM' POSER. There is in it an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of ' the whole...the whole world, well understood, would afford the un' dcrstanding.' It is from such hints and suggestions of thought that Browne, as Wordsworth, plumes... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an...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... | |
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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... 
