Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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... harp . By the power of the Holy Spirit He arranged in harmonious order this great world , yes , and the little world ... harp and my pipe and my temple " -my harp by reason of the music , my pipe by reason of the breath of the ...
... harp . By the power of the Holy Spirit He arranged in harmonious order this great world , yes , and the little world ... harp and my pipe and my temple " -my harp by reason of the music , my pipe by reason of the breath of the ...
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... Harp not on that string , madam , " warns the King , to which the Queen replies , " Harp on it still shall I till heart - strings break . " >> 26 Pericles , contrasting love and lust , describes the senses emblematically as strings ...
... Harp not on that string , madam , " warns the King , to which the Queen replies , " Harp on it still shall I till heart - strings break . " >> 26 Pericles , contrasting love and lust , describes the senses emblematically as strings ...
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... harp or " Faculties of the Soule . " What was true for one must be true for the other : And Man is a Harp ; the Powers and Faculties of the Soule , the strings ; the Reason , the Harper .... If Reason then playes wel his part , which ...
... harp or " Faculties of the Soule . " What was true for one must be true for the other : And Man is a Harp ; the Powers and Faculties of the Soule , the strings ; the Reason , the Harper .... If Reason then playes wel his part , which ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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