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" I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and 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. "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 232
1846
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...from my obedience but my particular genius I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and tavern music, s (vmtfmplatkm of the first composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the PH r discovers...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...from my obedience, but my particular genius, 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...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...from my obedience but my particular genius I do embrace it :s for even that vulgar and tavern-musick,4 which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence, Volume 2

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 592 pages
...from my obedience but my particular genius I do embrace it :3 for even that vulgar and tavern-musick,4 which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and ia profound contemplation of the first composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...AVhatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...contemplation of the first composer. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers; it is an hieroglyphicafand shadowed lesson of the whole...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 362 pages
..." Whatsoever is harmonically composed, delights in harmony : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...contemplation of the first composer. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...— and ' even that vulgar and tavern music, which ' makes one man merry, another mad, strikes 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 world and creatures...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...efficacy of either." &c. vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in him a deep fit 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 God — such a melody...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...Religio Medici. Justifying his love of church music, he says, — "Even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...and a profound contemplation of the first composer." That power of extracting deep devotion from "vulgar tavern music" is the great secret of Browne's eloquence....
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Religio medici: together with a letter to a friend on the death of his ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 420 pages
...embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern mufic, which makes one man merry, another mad, ftrikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the Firft Compofer ; there is fomething in it of divinity more than the ear difcovers : it is an hieroglyphical...
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