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 86
... mind . In spite of his initial statements to the contrary in the De amore , he concluded finally , even there , that " all love begins with sight . " " In a letter to Pellegrino de Gl'Agli ( although he paid tribute to the image of ...
... mind . In spite of his initial statements to the contrary in the De amore , he concluded finally , even there , that " all love begins with sight . " " In a letter to Pellegrino de Gl'Agli ( although he paid tribute to the image of ...
Page 120
... mind , imagination , and heart of the performer , they " move the phantasy , affect the heart and penetrate into the deep recesses of the mind . " 52 Agrippa made a point of prefacing his repetition of this latter assertion by Ficino ...
... mind , imagination , and heart of the performer , they " move the phantasy , affect the heart and penetrate into the deep recesses of the mind . " 52 Agrippa made a point of prefacing his repetition of this latter assertion by Ficino ...
Page 152
... mind . It brings " to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind translates into sound . " " He wrote elsewhere : If the ears , the tongue , and the nostrils were taken away , the figure , the numbers , and the motions would ...
... mind . It brings " to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind translates into sound . " " He wrote elsewhere : If the ears , the tongue , and the nostrils were taken away , the figure , the numbers , and the motions would ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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