Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 167
... Song , " not harmonious sound , is evidence of our " heavenly source . " By song , " not by his lyre , " not by " warbled " notes as in " Il Penseroso , " Orpheus compelled the ghosts of the dead to tears . ( Ad Patrem , lines 35-37 ...
... Song , " not harmonious sound , is evidence of our " heavenly source . " By song , " not by his lyre , " not by " warbled " notes as in " Il Penseroso , " Orpheus compelled the ghosts of the dead to tears . ( Ad Patrem , lines 35-37 ...
Page 168
... Song " ( song aided by " the power of som adjuring verse " ) , animates the Lady " in stony fetters fixt , " as the Asclipean statues were animated in antique lore . Although occult concept colors imagery , however , this idea is ...
... Song " ( song aided by " the power of som adjuring verse " ) , animates the Lady " in stony fetters fixt , " as the Asclipean statues were animated in antique lore . Although occult concept colors imagery , however , this idea is ...
Page 184
... song of Comus as the dance song . The dancing in La catena d'Adone is more conventional ballet , accompanied by chorus , which adds here 48 lines . Both dramas go on to a moral con- troversy debated in Comus by the two brothers , in La ...
... song of Comus as the dance song . The dancing in La catena d'Adone is more conventional ballet , accompanied by chorus , which adds here 48 lines . Both dramas go on to a moral con- troversy debated in Comus by the two brothers , in La ...
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An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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