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 78
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
Page 79
... motion of the spheres : If , as in water stir'd more circles bee Produc'd by one , love such additions take , Those like so many spheares , but one heaven make , For , they are all concentrique unto thee . " 1 Circular motion , imaged ...
... motion of the spheres : If , as in water stir'd more circles bee Produc'd by one , love such additions take , Those like so many spheares , but one heaven make , For , they are all concentrique unto thee . " 1 Circular motion , imaged ...
Page 144
... motion of the body ... by the very motion of the subtill aire , it pierceth vehemently , and by contemplation sucketh sweetly.2 21 This idea , however , was given more materialistic interpretation long before Lodge wrote about Dowland ...
... motion of the body ... by the very motion of the subtill aire , it pierceth vehemently , and by contemplation sucketh sweetly.2 21 This idea , however , was given more materialistic interpretation long before Lodge wrote about Dowland ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 |
| Author | Gretchen Ludke Finney |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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