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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. "
Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ... - Page 205
by Nathan Drake - 1822
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Hesperides

Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...swallow, in the hearing of Sir Thomas Browne's affirmation in regard to mere vulgar tavern music ; that " there is something in it of divinity more than the...lesson of the whole world and creatures of God."— But the silver chain must be broken : the melodies of memory be silenced. — The winter of 1877 was...
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Friends in Council: a Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1885 - 590 pages
...one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a ieep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of Jie first composer. There is something in it of divinity...more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical und shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God ; such a melody to the ear, as the whole...
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Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses Thereon, Volume 1

Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1885 - 606 pages
...one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a Jeep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of .he first composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphics! and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God ; such a melody to the...
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Merchant of Venice: With Introd., and Notes Explanatory and Critical, for ...

William Shakespeare - 1885 - 136 pages
...genius I do embrace it : lor 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 Neris. When the Moon shone we did not see the candle. Portia. So doth the greater glory dim the less...
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Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors with Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1888 - 490 pages
...Composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical 6 and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures...the ear as the whole world, well understood, would aiford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit 6 of that harmony which intellectually sounds...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend; Christian Morals; Urn-burial and Other ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1889 - 466 pages
...Genius, 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...World, and creatures of GOD ; such a melody to the 112 PART II. Phxd. c. 36. Amial. ii Pro A rchiti, foetd. Our Physician hath the general cause of humanity...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1839 - 204 pages
...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 devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. Thpre is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed...
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Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1892 - 220 pages
...genius I do embrace it: lor 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 Neris. When the Moon shone we did not see the candle. Portia. So doth the greater glory dim the less...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...music. MERCHANT OP VENICE VI EVEN that vulgar and Tavern-Musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of Devotion, and a profound...it of divinity more than the Ear discovers ; it is a Hieroglyphical and Shadowed Lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God, such a melody to the...
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Browning Studies: Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society

Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 354 pages
...I do embrace it ; for even that vulgar and tavern-music which makes one man merry and another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. There 1 When we read in the ' Timaeus ' such words as these we do not wonder at it : " He whose care it is...
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