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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... reason of the music , my pipe by reason of the breath of the Spirit , my temple by reason of the Word .... The Lord fashioned man a beautiful , breathing instrument , after His own image ; and assuredly He himself is an all - harmonious ...
... reason of the music , my pipe by reason of the breath of the Spirit , my temple by reason of the Word .... The Lord fashioned man a beautiful , breathing instrument , after His own image ; and assuredly He himself is an all - harmonious ...
Page 44
... reason , by other people , or by God . On this parallel emblem writers and others platitudinized often and at length . Henry Hawkins , in his Partheneia Sacra ( 1633 ) , argued the necessity of intelligent performance of the reason ...
... reason , by other people , or by God . On this parallel emblem writers and others platitudinized often and at length . Henry Hawkins , in his Partheneia Sacra ( 1633 ) , argued the necessity of intelligent performance of the reason ...
Page 148
... reason that Scaliger gave for this motion was disappointingly traditional . Spirits move in correspondence to air by the law of sympathy , and the analogy that he used was that of the proverbial two instruments sounding sympathetically ...
... reason that Scaliger gave for this motion was disappointingly traditional . Spirits move in correspondence to air by the law of sympathy , and the analogy that he used was that of the proverbial two instruments sounding sympathetically ...
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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