 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...vulgar and tavernmusic which makes one man happy, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and profound contemplation of the first composer. There...— such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, wellunderstood, would afford the understanding.' j Through ail the treatise there runs a gentle under-current... | |
 | Music - 1897 - 334 pages
...obliged to 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 contemplation of my Maker. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical... | |
 | Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...even that vulgar and tavern-music," avows Sir Thomas Browne, " which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound...something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers." Shakespeare does not fail of an allusion to this heaven-suggesting influence of music. Lorenzo says... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...tones and the voices of a church ; " even that 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." We may suppose that when Thomas Browne pleaded his cause with Mistress Mileham in some pleached arbour... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - English essays - 1901 - 246 pages
...tavern music as, in Sir Thomas Browne's words, makes one man merry, another mad, but struck in him a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the first composer. When it was finished they turned westward, bidding me farewell, and the edge of the horizon, as the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...THINKING HIGH : That Fools enough have travell'd up the Rhine; vinity more than the Ear discovert; it it an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the Whole...Melody to the Ear, as the whole world, well understood, mould afford the Understanding — a sensible fit of that Harmony which Intellectually sounds in the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...open.1 RKMCT. 1 "Even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man Merry and another Mad, itrikei in me a deep fit of Devotion, and a profound contemplation...of the FIRST COMPOSER; there is something in it of DiThe grand basis of Christianity is broad enough for the whole bulk of Mankind to stand on, and join... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - Christianity and literature - 1904 - 258 pages
...obliged to maintain 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 my Maker ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers." I pause in the quotation... | |
 | City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...Tavern-Musicke *&• oo •&• * VEN that vulgar and tavern - musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of my Maker. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical... | |
 | Church music - 1906 - 868 pages
...the serious music of any great composer? Even vulgar and tavern music aroused in Sir Thomas Browne a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the first composer. But there is much cant in the writings about Bach's music, possibly because Bach himself was a cantor.... | |
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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. 
