 | 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 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 that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God." the intellectual music of the soul, have been entertained by some of our best poets and... | |
 | 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...of that harmony, which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is an harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest... | |
 | 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 that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonica!, and hath its nearest... | |
 | 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 that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest... | |
 | 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....of that 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 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 1 sound] M1theMSS.andEdts. 1642 read, " vocal sound." — Ed. 2 though they give no sound, Sfc. ] Might... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 362 pages
...composer. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures...of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say, with Plato, that the soul is a harmony ; — but harmonica], and hath... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...composer. There is something in music of divinity, more than the ear discovers; it is an hieroglyphicafand shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of...of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say, with Plato, that the soul is a harmony ; — but harmonica!, and hath... | |
 | 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...of that harmony, which intellectually sounds in the ears of God. I will not say with Plato, the soul is a harmony, but harmonical, and has its nearest... | |
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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... 
