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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... organ , a suggestion of wind sounding through flute or recorder , instruments also called " organs . " Do we not all have windpipes that sound perhaps " as the maiden's organ , shrill and sound , " or a " big manly voice , / Turning ...
... organ , a suggestion of wind sounding through flute or recorder , instruments also called " organs . " Do we not all have windpipes that sound perhaps " as the maiden's organ , shrill and sound , " or a " big manly voice , / Turning ...
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... organ of my quill , That from my hand it may not runne in vaine , But keepe true time with my commanding braine.39 " Organ " is both bodily organ and musical instrument in a general sense in : " The Nightingale is the litle Orpheus of ...
... organ of my quill , That from my hand it may not runne in vaine , But keepe true time with my commanding braine.39 " Organ " is both bodily organ and musical instrument in a general sense in : " The Nightingale is the litle Orpheus of ...
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... organ filled with the blessed Spirit , the instrument spoken through : A Brother and a Sister , made by thee The Organ , where thou art the Harmony . The earth and its government are likewise organs . In " A Funerall Elegie , " the ...
... organ filled with the blessed Spirit , the instrument spoken through : A Brother and a Sister , made by thee The Organ , where thou art the Harmony . The earth and its government are likewise organs . In " A Funerall Elegie , " the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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