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 85
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . " " Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty ...
... sense organ to other parts of the body , to carry qualities of the sender . " " Ficino sometimes wrote of the spirits going out of the sense organ to receive the sense image , but in the De amore he described the image of beauty ...
Page 145
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
... sense , which was commonly located in the fore part of the brain , unified the variety of impressions carried to it by the spirits . These impressions , gradually freed of matter ( in which he showed no interest ) , were presented to ...
Page 168
... sense , And in sweet madnes rob'd it of it self . ( 255-260 ) This kind of music , designated for use in the banqueting scene , is the seductive music of Acrasia's Bower , where men are transformed to beasts . Yet the singing of the ...
... sense , And in sweet madnes rob'd it of it self . ( 255-260 ) This kind of music , designated for use in the banqueting scene , is the seductive music of Acrasia's Bower , where men are transformed to beasts . Yet the singing of the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650 (Classic Reprint) Gretchen Ludke Finney No preview available - 2018 |
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