The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that! The North American Review - Page 4851884Full view - About this book
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not a parish in the world... | |
| William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 196 pages
...them all reveals more than we can speak, and nearest all that we feel ? Is it not, as Carlyle says, " a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and let us for a moment gaze into that " — But the effort of musical art is not to imitate the sounds... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. Jfay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not a parish in the world... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1852 - 488 pages
...not ; but that he would, we have little doubt, for has he not in his own strange eloquence said, " Who is there, that in logical words can express the...leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that?" Surely, they who can silently understand, if they cannot audibly interpret,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it : not a parish in the world... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 222 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and kts us for moments gaze into that. Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1861 - 234 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...logical words, can express the effect music has on us 1 A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. MUSIC— Influence -oí Tho meaning of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical...leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for momenu gaze into that ! CarljU. Amid the golden gifts which Heaven Has loft, like portions of its light... | |
| Patrick Proctor Alexander - 1868 - 230 pages
...law of familiarity.' Mr. Carlyle has said of Music, that it 'is a kind of inarticulate un' fathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the ' Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that' Foolishness as it must needs be to a certain class of readers, this seems to express with as much precision... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 pages
...here in this world. All inmost things, we may say, are melodious ; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that,...the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that ! Nay all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not a parish in the world... | |
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