Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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Page 109
... give life , since the dust of the earth became man when into it God breathed the " breath of life " ( Gen. 2 : 7 ) ? Authority for this use of music to infuse prophetic spirit , or to give life where none was before , was to be found in ...
... give life , since the dust of the earth became man when into it God breathed the " breath of life " ( Gen. 2 : 7 ) ? Authority for this use of music to infuse prophetic spirit , or to give life where none was before , was to be found in ...
Page 117
... give her air . Gentlemen , This queen will live . " Milton , too , knew his Hermetic philosophy . One of his imagined joys of solitude in " Il Penseroso " is that of watching starry constellations with " thrice great Hermes . " The Lady ...
... give her air . Gentlemen , This queen will live . " Milton , too , knew his Hermetic philosophy . One of his imagined joys of solitude in " Il Penseroso " is that of watching starry constellations with " thrice great Hermes . " The Lady ...
Page 151
... give pleasure . Descartes , in his Com- pendium of Music ( written in 1618 , but published only posthumously in 1650 ) ... gives a reason of these effects , " he continued ( as Kircher did later ) : " the spirits about the heart take in ...
... give pleasure . Descartes , in his Com- pendium of Music ( written in 1618 , but published only posthumously in 1650 ) ... gives a reason of these effects , " he continued ( as Kircher did later ) : " the spirits about the heart take in ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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