 | 1841 - 456 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...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
...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...well understood, would afford the understanding." It is from such hints and suggestions of thought that Browne, as Wordsworth, plumes his wings and raises... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 320 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 musick; thus some whose... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Christian ethics - 1844 - 320 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 musick; thus some whose... | |
 | American periodicals - 1846 - 586 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...afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible n't of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of Gen.' Whatever one may think as to the... | |
 | Robert Mushet - Ethics, Ancient - 1847 - 524 pages
...Thomas Browne, which might have fallen from the pen of any philosopher of the Pythagorean school : — " There is something in music of divinity more than...God ; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world well-understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 254 pages
...deep fit of devotion and a profound contem" plation of the first composer. There is something in " it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an...well understood, would afford " the understanding." MILVERTON. A propos of music in country places, when I was going about last year in the neighbouring... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 260 pages
...deep fit of devotion and a profound contem" plation of the first composer. There is something in u it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an...well understood, would afford " the understanding." MILVERTON. A propos of music in country places, when I was going about last year in the neighbouring... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 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...world, well understood, would afford the Understanding — a sensible fit of that Harmony which Intellectually sounds in the Ears of GOD." Sir T. Browne.... | |
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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... 
