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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:... "
Sir Thomas Browne - Page 48
by Sir Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 214 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

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 my altitude;...
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...music. For myself, not only from my obedience, but my particular genius, I do embrace it ; for, — it strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound...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 divines. Thus,...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

1831 - 370 pages
...from my obedience, but my particular genius, I do embrace it ; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...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 sympathy unto...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...from my obedience, but my particular genius, I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in...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 sympathy unto...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...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....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 sympathy unto...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

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....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 sympathy...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 362 pages
...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...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 its nearest sympathy...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural ..., Volume 3

Edward Mammatt - 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...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 its nearest sympathy...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 5

1836 - 352 pages
...composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is au hieroglyphics! and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures...of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the cars of God. SIR THOMAS BROWN. There be in music certain figures or tropes, almost agreeing with the...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...; which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaim against all church-music. For myself, not only from my obedience, but my particular...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 sympathy unto...
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