The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volume 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1807 |
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... Music is capable of producing permanent effect , in forming the character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as ...
... Music is capable of producing permanent effect , in forming the character of the soul . SIR , To the Director . THOSE persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as ...
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... Music in particular , I am inclined to think , not only that her best , but that her most appropriate employ ment is of this kind ; and that she is ne- ver so truly in her element , as when she is soothing the passions , or elevating ...
... Music in particular , I am inclined to think , not only that her best , but that her most appropriate employ ment is of this kind ; and that she is ne- ver so truly in her element , as when she is soothing the passions , or elevating ...
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... Music , even when the singer is no moral agent , the poets have , with one consent , agreed to attribute passions to the nightingale , to which she doubtless is a stranger ; and have supposed that she laments her young , or laments her ...
... Music , even when the singer is no moral agent , the poets have , with one consent , agreed to attribute passions to the nightingale , to which she doubtless is a stranger ; and have supposed that she laments her young , or laments her ...
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... Music is wholly disregarded , as in the case of those low professors , who degrade it into a trade , or of those unthinking di- lettanti who give their whole time to it , as an idle and expensive luxury , nature seems to take revenge on ...
... Music is wholly disregarded , as in the case of those low professors , who degrade it into a trade , or of those unthinking di- lettanti who give their whole time to it , as an idle and expensive luxury , nature seems to take revenge on ...
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... Music ; nor do I expect it to quiet a mob , any more than to unite a broken bone . I am even willing to confess , that , under any state of society which we have witnessed , or can readily conceive , the refinement of the Lacedæmonians ...
... Music ; nor do I expect it to quiet a mob , any more than to unite a broken bone . I am even willing to confess , that , under any state of society which we have witnessed , or can readily conceive , the refinement of the Lacedæmonians ...
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