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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... philosophy , that body of literature so filled with astrological , cabalistic , alchemical , and Neoplatonic notions that was compiled during the first few centuries after Christ and attributed to Hermes Trismegistus . The other was ...
... philosophy , that body of literature so filled with astrological , cabalistic , alchemical , and Neoplatonic notions that was compiled during the first few centuries after Christ and attributed to Hermes Trismegistus . The other was ...
Page 169
... philosophy , in which there is no surfeit by which man may “ sicken and so die " : How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh , and crabbed as dull fools suppose , But musical as is Apollo's lute , And a perpetual feast of nectar'd ...
... philosophy , in which there is no surfeit by which man may “ sicken and so die " : How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh , and crabbed as dull fools suppose , But musical as is Apollo's lute , And a perpetual feast of nectar'd ...
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... Philosophy ( 1644 ) , Pt . IV , principle CLXXXIX ; and The Passions of the Soul ( 1645-1646 ) , art . XXXI , in Philosophical Works , ed . E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross ( Cambridge , Eng . , 1911–1912 ) , I , 289 , 345–346 . 43 ...
... Philosophy ( 1644 ) , Pt . IV , principle CLXXXIX ; and The Passions of the Soul ( 1645-1646 ) , art . XXXI , in Philosophical Works , ed . E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross ( Cambridge , Eng . , 1911–1912 ) , I , 289 , 345–346 . 43 ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
A Religious Controversy | 47 |
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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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