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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. "
Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ... - Page 205
by Nathan Drake - 1822
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On Strange Altars: A Book of Enthusiasms

Paul Jordan-Smith - Literature - 1924 - 300 pages
...he hears the merriment that comes from the tavern, he translates it into his own kind of devotion; "there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers." He finds his sources of amusement in the unfrequented corners of the world, and Vulgar Errors, like...
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A History of English Literature: The middle ages & the renascence (650-1660 ...

Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - English literature - 1926 - 416 pages
...harmony, loved it in the sound of organs, even found food for it in the music he heard in taverns. "There is something in it of divinity more than the...shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of Godsuch a melody to the ear as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding." This...
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Art and the Reformation

George Gordon Coulton - Architecture, Gothic - 1928 - 708 pages
...transfiguration through music. " 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...it of divinity more than the ear discovers: it is a microphysical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God—such a melody to the...
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Art and the Reformation

George Gordon Coulton - Architecture, Gothic - 1928 - 708 pages
...music. " For even that vulgar and tavern musick which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes 121 in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation...it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is a microphysical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God — such a melody to the...
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Programme, Volumes 1916-1917

Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1916 - 1272 pages
...tones of this harmony, "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...it of Divinity more than the ear discovers; it is a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world and creatures of God; such a melody to the...
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Politicians and Virtuosi: Essays on Early Modern History

H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 300 pages
...myself. . . I 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 the first Composer/'" Leonardo da Vinci had seen that painting has an enormous psychological power, a numinous power - or...
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Politicians and Virtuosi

H. G. Koenigsberger - History - 1986 - 294 pages
...myself. . . I 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 the first Composer.60 Leonardo da Vinci had seen that painting has an enormous psychological power, a numinous...
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Figures in a Renaissance Context

C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...even that vulgar and Taverne Musicke, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in mee a deepe fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the...there is something in it of Divinity more than the eare discovers. It is an Hieroglyphicall and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and Creatures of God,...
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Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of Music

E. Michael Jones - Music - 1994 - 214 pages
...Genius, 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...and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear as to the whole World, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief it is a sensible fit...
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Elizabethan Mythologies: Studies in Poetry, Drama and Music

Robin Headlam Wells - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 312 pages
...Genius, I do 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...Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World ... In brief, it is a sensible fit ofthat harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God.78...
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