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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 devotipn, and a profound contemplation of the first Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers... "
Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ... - Page 119
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 304 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

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. . . ....
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound (vmtfmplatkm + PH r discovers : it is an hieroglyphical aud shadowed les.sou of the whole world and crea. O'erlook...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.5 There is something in it of divinity more than the...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."...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 5

1836 - 352 pages
...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...it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is au hieroglyphics! and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God — such a melody to...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 362 pages
...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 music of divinity, more than the ear discovers ; it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...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 music of divinity, more than the ear discovers; it is an hieroglyphicafand shadowed lesson of the whole...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 10-11

1837 - 538 pages
...which makes one merry, another mad, strikes m me a deep fit of devotion and profound contemplation 01 the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers. I will not say with Plato, the sot is an harmony, but harmonica!, and hath its nearest sv pathy unto...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 38

1841 - 456 pages
...vulgar and tavern music which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes me into a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer....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,...
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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
...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...
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