| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...Milton, p. 1 50. In his academy the students are to spend some time ' in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned.' Works, i. 283. ' Where Milton introduces music in his poems he talks the language of a master.'... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...convenient rest before meat may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed" spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned; either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant, in lofty fugues, or... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 322 pages
.... . . before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned, either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fuges, or... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...convenient rest before meat, may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their ` + learned, either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or... | |
| Joseph Crouch - Art and religion - 1910 - 448 pages
...labour might, he said, " both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned ; either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or... | |
| Cecil Grant, Norman Hodgson - Coeducation - 1913 - 346 pages
...writes that children " may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned . . . which, if wise men and prophets be not extreamlyout, have a great power over dispositions... | |
| Sigmund Spaeth - Music and literature - 1913 - 202 pages
...rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned, either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or... | |
| National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1915 - 691 pages
...leisure, " * * may both with profit and deligh.t be taken up in creating and composing their travail'd spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learnt; either while the skillful organist plies his grave and fancied descant, in lofty fugue, or the whole symphony with artful... | |
| Joseph Lee - Play - 1915 - 544 pages
...before meat, "may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travail'd. spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learnt; either while the skillful organist plies his grave and fancied descant, in lofty fugue, or the whole symphony with artful... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1927 - 208 pages
...rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned; either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fuges, or... | |
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